All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSGood masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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