Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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HerodotusHerodotus Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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HerodotusHerodotus My men have become women, but the women men.
HerodotusHerodotus The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HerodotusHerodotus We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HerodotusHerodotus The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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HerodotusHerodotus 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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