Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUSCall no man happy before he dies.
More Herodotus Quotes
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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