Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUSBut this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Happiness 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.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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