Herodotus Quotes - Page 2

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• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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  Time, History, Eternity

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• 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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  Health, Two, Soul

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• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

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  Inspirational, Business, Men

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• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

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  Power, Men, Suffering

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• As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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  Together, Doe, Saws

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• My men have become women, but the women men.

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  Courage, Women, Men

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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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  Long, Trials, Disease

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• Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

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  Business, Fall, Men

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• Call no man happy before he dies.

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  Happiness, Men, Dies

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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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  Heart, Evil, Suffering

  Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

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  Honor, Shady, Possession

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• The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

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  Country, Shine On, Shining

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• The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

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  Eye, Ears, Trustworthy

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• There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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  Useless, Foolish, Outrage

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• A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

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  Friendship, Real, Joy

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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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  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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  Military, Skills, Needs

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 3, Ch. 127, c. 440 BC.

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• To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

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  Life Is, Refuge

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, Book 7,

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• A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

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  Believe, Men, Calumny Is

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• I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

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  Believe, Cases, Bounds

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 152, c. 440 BC.

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• Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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  Change, Men, Resistance

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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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  Looks, Ends, Should

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• In soft regions are born soft men.

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  Life, Men, Born

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

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  Country, Believe, Opportunity

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