— Flavius Josephus, reporting Antipater's advice to his son Herod
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"Kings do not use to requite men for those kindnesses which they received when they were private persons, the height of their fortune making usually no small changes in them."
— Josephus
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"With whom is what is righteous, with them is God himself."
— Herod, to his men before a battle
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"If we allow that this was done by the will of God, we must allow that it is now over by his will also, and that he is satisfied with what hath already happened; for had he been willing to afflict us still more thereby, he had not changed his mind so soon."
— Herod, before battle, encouraging his men not to worry about a recent earthquake
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"For it is a constant rule, that misfortunes are still laid to the account of those that govern."
— Josephus
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