Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUSI am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The 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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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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.
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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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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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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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