Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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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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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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