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.
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.
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