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• Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

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  Envy, Kind, Natural

  Herodotus (1866). “The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices”, p.393

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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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• 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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• We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

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  Persuasion, Convinced

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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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  Life, Happiness, Real

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• A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

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  Respect, Women, Garments

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• Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

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  Sports, Archer, Men

  Herodotus (2017). “The Histories of Herodotus”, p.133, Aegitas

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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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  Men, Luck, Sides

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• Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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  God, Men, People

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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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  Military, East, Movement

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• 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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  Successful, Favour, Reason

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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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  Design, Outcomes, Favour

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.508, OUP Oxford

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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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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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  Boys, Age, Three Things

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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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  Change, Men, Doe

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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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  Country, Together, Saws

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• The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

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  Hair, Skins, Noses

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• Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

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  Party, Calumny Is, Two

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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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  War, Evil, Effort

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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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  God, Jealous, Great Success

  "Herodotus. With an English Translation by A.D. Godley". Book by Herodotus, vol. 2, book 3, paragraph 40, p. 53, 55, 1928.

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• This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

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  Kings, Science, Egypt

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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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  Block, Archer, Fighting

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• We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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  Islands, Two, Useless

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• The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.

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  Powerful, Greatness, Land

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• Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

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  Lying, Falsehood

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