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One Quotes by Herodotus
- 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…
- 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 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 should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to…
- It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
- 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…
- If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
- If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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