Herodotus Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Las grandes hazañas suelen correr grandes riesgos.

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  Death, Suicide, Writing

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

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

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  God, Men, People

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• Una buena planificación es lo que siempre nos da el resultado que queremos; sin ella, ni siquiera los dioses verán con buenos ojos nuestros designios.

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  Design, Outcomes, Favour

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

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

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  Respect, Women, Garments

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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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• Algunos renuncian a sus designios cuando casi han alcanzado la meta; mientras que otros, por el contrario, obtienen una victoria ejerciendo, en el último momento, esfuerzos más vigorosos que nunca.

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  Inspiración, Felicidad, Inspiración

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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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• 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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  Lluvia, Noche, Nieve

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

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

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  Lying, Falsehood

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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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• 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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• How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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  Envidia, envidia

  Herodotus (1875). “The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, from the Most Recent Sources of Information; and Embodying the Chief Results, Historical and Ethnographical, which Have Been Obtained in the Progress of Cuneiform and Hieroglyphical Discovery”, p.372

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• The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

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  Loss, Errors, Undertakings

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• Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

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  Slavery, Slave, Masters

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