Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
HerodotusA man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
HerodotusI 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.
HerodotusOne should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
HerodotusHappiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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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