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

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  Respect, Women, Garments

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

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  God, Men, People

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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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• 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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  Water, Joy, Greek

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

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

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  Courage, Women, Men

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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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• 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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• Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

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  People, Inquiry, Action

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

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  Rain, Night, Snow

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.718, OUP Oxford

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

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  Lying, Falsehood

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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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• The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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  Wall, Ships, All Alone

  "Herodotus, VII. 141". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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