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Than Quotes by Herodotus
- Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
- How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
- Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
- The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
- Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the…
- It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness…
- 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…
- The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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