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| Herodotus
A Cadmean victory. [The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered, later called a Pyrrhic victory.] A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. Better it is to be envied than pitied.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. Call no man happy before he dies. Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.
Chances rule men and not men chances.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. Criticize in private.Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. Force has no place where there is need of skill.From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk.Haste in every business brings failures. How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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 without knowing
it.
-Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. In peace, children bury their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children. In soft regions are born soft men. It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
It is better to be envied than pitied. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing. Power is precarious.Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. The destiny of man is in his own soulThe ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. Utterly innocent in her utter ignorance of evil, she saw no snare in
such simple joys, she had no premonition of danger.Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. |
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