The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
HerodotusIt is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HerodotusThe Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HerodotusWe have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HerodotusIt 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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