Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUSWhatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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