The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUSHerodotus Quotes
Nationality:Greek
Walk of life:Greek writer
Born:Halicarnassus, Turkey
Died:Thurii, Italy
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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