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 unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.
When you stop admiring yourself _x000D_ and let the eyes of the heart _x000D_ open your vision to vast other worlds _x000D_ then all you do, will become admirable
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
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