Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
HERODOTUSLove of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
HERODOTUSIf you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUSBut this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
HERODOTUSIt [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUSHow 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.
HERODOTUSOf all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUSChances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUSI never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
HERODOTUSHow much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
HERODOTUSAll men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSCivil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HERODOTUSThe ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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