Hellas Quotes by Herodotus

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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…
• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting,…
• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
• The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
• The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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