Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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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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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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