All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSHow much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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