But 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.
HERODOTUSGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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