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Men Quotes by Herodotus
- Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
- Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
- 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…
- All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- 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.
- Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
- The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
- In soft regions are born soft men.
- Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
- The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
- Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and…
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