I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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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 things are won by great dangers.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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