Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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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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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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