Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
HERODOTUSDreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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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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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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