When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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