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Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably. (Herodotus)
Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, "All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight." View quote
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From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods. View quote
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My men have turned into women and my women into men! View quote
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It was a kind of Cadmean victory. View quote
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Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men. View quote
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. View quote
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But Alexander (I of Macedon), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first place. View quote
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Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know. View quote
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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. View quote
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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. (Herodotus)
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. View quote
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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. View quote
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. View quote
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From Peloponnesos (came) the Lakedaimonians..., the Corinthians..., the Sikyonians..., the Epidaurians..., the Troiezenians... All these (groups)... belong to the Dorian and Macedonian nation (and) had emigrated last from Erineus and Pindos and Dryopis. View quote
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"At sea your men will be as far inferior to Greeks as women are to men." (By Artemisa, the best persian warrior in Salamina, a very courageous woman. A superbe irony!). View quote
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service. View quote
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. View quote
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It is a law of nature that faint-hearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. View quote
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They the Persians are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking. View quote
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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Herodotus)
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries. View quote
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In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. View quote
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At sea your men will be as far inferior to Greeks as women are to men. View quote
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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. View quote
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