Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUSHaste in every business brings failures.
More Herodotus Quotes
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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