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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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.
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.
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.
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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.
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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.
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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
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.
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.