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.
HERODOTUSThose who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
HERODOTUSHaste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUSSome give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUSAs 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.
HERODOTUSVery few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUSThe Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUSRemember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUSThe wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUSIt 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.
HERODOTUSBut 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.
HERODOTUSChances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUSOf all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUSGreat things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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