Herodotus Quotes

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery

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