Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUSEnvy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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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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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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