All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSThe wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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 worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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