Greek - Historian | 484 BC - 425 BC
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
Herodotus
RespectWomanSheHerGarmentHers
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
TruthI AmBelieveTellEveryBound
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
StrengthPlaceSkillNeedForce
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
BetterThanMuchHowHow MuchThing
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
MenManWheelSameProsperTurning
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
ChangeMenIllnessStrikesExposed
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
MenDeathPlaceHidingWeary
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
EyesMenBeliefEarsThanAgents
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
MenPlaceNeverCheatBreakMiddle
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 good things for itself.
GoodTogetherGood ThingsImpossible
Great things are won by great dangers.
GreatGreat ThingsThingsDangers
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
SuccessGreatJealousyJealousKnow
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