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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

- Herodotus | Death and Dying Quotes

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

- Herodotus | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all; the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

- Herodotus | History and Historians Quotes

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

- Herodotus | Men Quotes

In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.

- Herodotus | War Quotes

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

- Herodotus | Work Quotes

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

- Herodotus | Self-Reliance Quotes

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

- Herodotus | Fear Quotes

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

- Herodotus | Risks Quotes

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

- Herodotus | Courage Quotes

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

- Herodotus | Success Quotes

It is better to be envied than pitied.

- Herodotus | Envy Quotes

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

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