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Man Quotes by Herodotus
- The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
- The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
- 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…
- It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the…
- Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
- The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad…
- He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of…
- How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And…
- The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
- Call no man happy before he dies.
- Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
- A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
- Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow…
- The destiny of man is in his own soul.
- The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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