If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
Interpretation
Time is a valuable resource; generous use of it can lead to great outcomes.
Herodotus suggests that when one invests time generously, in various pursuits and endeavors, they create an environment in which numerous possibilities can unfold. This statement underscores the importance of patience and the willingness to dedicate time, as substantial results often require sustained effort and commitment.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about the importance of dedication.
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.
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.
Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
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