Herodotus Quotes
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
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The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.
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Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
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There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
