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Herodotus Quote: “Now stop your dancing; you wouldn’t come out and dance when I played to you.”

101. “Now stop your dancing; you wouldn’t come out and dance when I played to you.”

Herodotus Quote: “The longer the span of someone’s existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.”

102. “The longer the span of someone’s existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.”

Herodotus Quote: “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.”

103. “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.”

Herodotus Quote: “Was there a nation in Asia that Xerxes did not take with him against Greece? Was there a river, except the greatest, that his army did not drink dry?”

104. “Was there a nation in Asia that Xerxes did not take with him against Greece? Was there a river, except the greatest, that his army did not drink dry?”

Herodotus Quote: “For it was not a god invading Greece, but a man; and no man now existed or ever would exist who was not liable to misfortune from the day of his birth – and the greater the man, the greater the misfortune. Their invader therefore, being only human, was bound to fall from his glory.”

105. “For it was not a god invading Greece, but a man; and no man now existed or ever would exist who was not liable to misfortune from the day of his birth – and the greater the man, the greater the misfortune. Their invader therefore, being only human, was bound to fall from his glory.”

Herodotus Quote: “Success for the most part attends those who act boldly, not those who weigh everything, and are slack to venture.”

106. “Success for the most part attends those who act boldly, not those who weigh everything, and are slack to venture.”

Herodotus Quote: “If everyone in the world to make public his own personal problems, with the aim of swapping them for those of his fellow-men, just a single glance at the miseries of his neighbours would see him gladly take back with him the ones that he had brought.”

107. “If everyone in the world to make public his own personal problems, with the aim of swapping them for those of his fellow-men, just a single glance at the miseries of his neighbours would see him gladly take back with him the ones that he had brought.”

Herodotus Quote: “Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.”

108. “Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.”

Herodotus Quote: “Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks; among the matters covered is, in particular, the cause of the hostilities between Greeks and non-Greeks.”

109. “Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks; among the matters covered is, in particular, the cause of the hostilities between Greeks and non-Greeks.”

Herodotus Quote: “I see thou dost not credit what I tell thee of my lady’s loveliness; but come now, since men’s ears are less credulous than their eyes, contrive some means whereby thou mayst behold her naked.” At.”

110. “I see thou dost not credit what I tell thee of my lady’s loveliness; but come now, since men’s ears are less credulous than their eyes, contrive some means whereby thou mayst behold her naked.” At.”

Herodotus Quote: “When Psammetichus found out what they were doing, he came after them. He caught up with them and made a long speech pleading with them and trying to persuade them not to abandon their ancestral deities and their wives and children. At this, one of the soldiers, so the story goes, pointed to his genitals and said that wherever this was he would have wives and children.”

111. “When Psammetichus found out what they were doing, he came after them. He caught up with them and made a long speech pleading with them and trying to persuade them not to abandon their ancestral deities and their wives and children. At this, one of the soldiers, so the story goes, pointed to his genitals and said that wherever this was he would have wives and children.”

Herodotus Quote: “History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.”

112. “History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.”

Herodotus Quote: “These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the barbarians from losing their due meed of glory; and withal to put on record what were the grounds of feud.”

113. “These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the barbarians from losing their due meed of glory; and withal to put on record what were the grounds of feud.”

Herodotus Quote: “Let anyone who finds them credible believe the stories told by the Egyptians. For my part, I have made it a rule throughout this account to record, just as I hear them, the traditions of the various nations.”

114. “Let anyone who finds them credible believe the stories told by the Egyptians. For my part, I have made it a rule throughout this account to record, just as I hear them, the traditions of the various nations.”

Herodotus Quote: “For the cities which were formerly great have most of them become insignificant; and such as are at present powerful, were weak in the olden time. I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness.”

115. “For the cities which were formerly great have most of them become insignificant; and such as are at present powerful, were weak in the olden time. I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness.”

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