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.
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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