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Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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If one were to order all mankind to choose the best set of rules in the world, each group would, after due consideration, choose its own customs; each group regards its own as being by far the best.

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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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When life is so burdensome, death has become for man a sought-after refuge.

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Herodotus

Herodotus

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Born: 484 BC

Died: 425 BC (aged 59)

Bio: Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire and lived in the fifth century BC, a contemporary of Socrates.

Known for:

Histories
An Account of Egypt
Snakes with Wings and Gold-Digging Ants
The Histories Book 8: Urania
The Histories Book 4: Melpomene

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