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.
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldnβt have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
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