Herodotus Quotes
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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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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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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
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Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.
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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
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They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
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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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