Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

Herodotus's Popular Quotes

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

- Herodotus

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles we…

- Herodotus

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

- Herodotus

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

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Haste in every business brings failures.

- Herodotus

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 …

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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

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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 …

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

- Herodotus