Herodotus - Men Quotes

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

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Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.

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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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This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge, but no power.

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It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

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For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of
his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

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It is well to bear in mind that chances rule men, and not men chances.

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