All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
HERODOTUSIn peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
More Herodotus Quotes
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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