All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Interpretation
Success comes from taking risks and seizing opportunities.
This quote suggests that all achievements stem from a willingness to take risks and explore the unknown. Herodotus emphasizes that the rewards in life, whether material or personal growth, are the result of bold ventures rather than remaining in a comfort zone.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
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.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
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