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• Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

  Herodotus

  Men, Unhappy, Rich

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• How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

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  Men, Earth, Guides

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• If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

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  Drunk, Decision, House

  Herodotus (2007). “Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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  Men, Suffering, Wheels

  Herodotus (1990). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them

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  Stars, Years, Names

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• It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

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  Pride, Tree, Suffering

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• The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

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  Kings, Long, Arms

  "The Histories. Book 8". Book by Herodotus, Ch. 140, c. 440 BC.

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• I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

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  Cheating, Men, Cities

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, (1.153.1), c. 440 BC.

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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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  Time, Drinking, Wine

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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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  Memorable, Fighting, Battle

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.479, OUP Oxford

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• If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

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  Men, Bidding, World

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• For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

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  Body, Blind, Wit

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• In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Children

  Histories bk. 1, sec. 87

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• Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

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  Spring, Taken, Years

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• For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

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  Change, Time, Cities

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• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

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  Believe, Eye, Men

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