Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUSAll men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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But 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.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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