Great things are won by great dangers.
Interpretation
Achieving significant successes often requires taking substantial risks.
This quote by Herodotus emphasizes the idea that remarkable achievements are often the result of embracing challenges and taking bold risks. It suggests that the path to greatness is fraught with dangers, and those who dare to confront them are the ones who ultimately attain great rewards.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams and taking risks.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
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 one nonetheless.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.
Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
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