Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Interpretation
Illness can be a reaction to the stress of undergoing change.
Herodotus suggests that when individuals or societies experience change, it can lead to negative consequences, including illness. This highlights the idea that adaptation to change and the stress that comes with it can have profound effects on well-being.
In practice
In a discussion about the challenges of a new job, one might say, 'As Herodotus observed, illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.'
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.
Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
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