The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
HERODOTUSBut I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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