Herodotus

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ↗

— Herodotus

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ↗

— Herodotus

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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. ↗

— Herodotus

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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. ↗

— Herodotus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. ↗

— Herodotus

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In soft regions are born soft men. ↗

— Herodotus

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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. ↗

— Herodotus

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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ↗

— Herodotus

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end. ↗

— Herodotus

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