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Inspirational Quotes by Herodotus
- Haste in every business brings failures.
- All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
- How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
- It is better to be envied than pitied.
- But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
- Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
- Force has no place where there is need of skill
- The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
- Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
- I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
- Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
- When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
- Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
- Great things are won by great dangers.
- In soft regions are born soft men.
- Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
- Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
- Call no man happy before he dies.
- If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
- God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
- I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
- It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
- We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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