In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
HerodotusHe is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
HerodotusHow can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
Herodotusthe Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them
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