One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
HERODOTUSSome 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.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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