Herodotus Quotes
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
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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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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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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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Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
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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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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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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.