Herodotus quotes

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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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 g ...
They are free, but not entirely free. For Law is despot over them, and they fear him much more than your men fear you.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
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 ...
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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