The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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