Herodotus Quotes - Page 5

• The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

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  Kings, Long, Arms

  "The Histories. Book 8". Book by Herodotus, Ch. 140, c. 440 BC.

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• Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

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  Lluvia, Noche, Nieve

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, Book 8,

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• Nunca he temido a esos hombres que establecen un lugar aparte en medio de sus ciudades donde se reúnen para engañarse unos a otros y hacer juramentos que rompen.

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  Cheating, Men, Cities

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, (1.153.1), c. 440 BC.

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• The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

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  Memorable, Fighting, Battle

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.479, OUP Oxford

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• If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

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  Drunk, Decision, House

  Herodotus (2007). “Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• Ellos [los persas] acostumbran a deliberar sobre asuntos de suma importancia cuando están calientes por el vino; pero cualquier cosa que decidan en esta situación se les vuelve a proponer al día siguiente, en sus momentos más fríos, por la persona en cuya casa se habían reunido antes. Si en ese momento también cuenta con su aprobación, se ejecuta; de lo contrario, se rechaza. Cualquier cosa que discutan cuando están sobrios, siempre se examina por segunda vez después de haber bebido.

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  Time, Drinking, Wine

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• If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

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  Men, Bidding, World

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• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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  Men, Suffering, Wheels

  Herodotus (1990). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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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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  Pride, Tree, Suffering

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• For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

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  Body, Blind, Wit

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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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  Inspirational, Peace, Children

  Histories bk. 1, sec. 87

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• Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

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  Country, Men, Born

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• For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

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  Change, Time, Cities

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• Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

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  Spring, Taken, Years

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• Egipto es el regalo del Nilo.

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  Egypt, Nile

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• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

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  Believe, Eye, Men

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