Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
HERODOTUSLove of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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