All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSAll men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSCircumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HERODOTUSThose who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
HERODOTUSWe have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUSA woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUSBut 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.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUSThe Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUSBut I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
HERODOTUSHow 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.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
HERODOTUSIt is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
HERODOTUSThe 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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