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• Aunque todo el cuerpo de espartanos y tespios hizo gala de un valor extraordinario, el más valiente de todos fue el espartano Dienekes. Se cuenta que, en vísperas de la batalla, un nativo de Traquis le dijo que los arqueros persas eran tan numerosos que sus flechas taparían el sol. Dienekes, sin embargo, impávido ante esta perspectiva, comentó riendo: "Bien. Entonces lucharemos a la sombra.

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  Block, Archer, Fighting

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

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  Slavery, Slave, Masters

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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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• A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

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  Kings, Rage From The Iliad, Good Things

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• Egipto posee más maravillas que cualquier otro país del mundo y ofrece más obras que desafían cualquier descripción que cualquier otro lugar.

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  Country, Egypt, World

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• Porque si se propusiera a todos los hombres una elección, pidiéndoles que eligieran las mejores costumbres de entre todas las costumbres que hay, cada raza de hombres, después de examinarlas todas, elegiría las de su propio pueblo.
  de su propio pueblo; así todos piensan que sus propias costumbres son con mucho las mejores

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  Hombres, Pensamiento, Raza

  Herodotus (2015). “The Histories Book 3: Thaleia”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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  Suffering, Doe, Presumption

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• It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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  Equality, Freedom Of Speech, Way

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• One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

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  Vida, Felicidad, Éxito

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• Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

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  Clothes, Modesty, Remember

  Herodotus (1806). “Herodotus: A sketch of the life of Herodotus. Chio. Euterpe. v. 2. Euterpe continued. Thalia. Melpomene. v. 3. Melpomene continued. Terpsichore. Erato. Polymnia. v. 4. Polymnia continued. Urania. Calliope. Index”, p.39

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• We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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  Islands, Two, Useless

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• Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

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  Happy, Death, Men

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• Chances rule men and not men chances.

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  Men, Chance

  The History of Herodotus Volume II, Book VII, 49

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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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  Years, Curiosity, Easier

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.co.uk

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• A menos que se nos presente una variedad de opiniones, no tenemos la oportunidad de seleccionar, sino que estamos obligados a adoptar el punto de vista particular que se haya presentado.

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  Opportunity, Views, Decision

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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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  Horse, Rain, Journey

  Herodotus (1961). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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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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  Morning, Wine, Night

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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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• These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

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  Distance, Rain, Night

  Herodotus (1862). “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.279

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• It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

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  Greatness, Lows, Surpassing

  "The Histories. Book 7". Book by Herodotus, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.

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• A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

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  Eye, Men, His Eyes

  Histories (5th century b.c.).

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

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  War, Water, Giving

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

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  Men, Unhappy, Rich

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