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The Histories

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“Human prosperity never abides long in the same place”

“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men”

“Hippocleides doesn't care”

“My men have turned into women and my women into men!”

“Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.”

“Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.”

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”

“From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.”

“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”

“I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”

“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”