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Völkerkundler, ältester griechischer Geschichtsschreiber, Philosoph, sein einziges erhaltenes Werk sind die 9 Bücher umfassenden "Historien" (Griechenland, 485 - 424 v. Chr.).

Herodot · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 14.07.-485 in Halikarnassos
Gestorben am 31.12.-424 in Athen
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs

• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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• Haste in every business brings failures.

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• It is a law of nature that faint-hearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

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• It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.

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• It is better to be envied than to be pitied.

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• Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

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• Nothing is more ignorant, nothing more reckless than the masses.

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• Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Power is precarious.

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• The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

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• This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

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• Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

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• Chacun ne doit regarder que ce qui est à lui.

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• Donnez tout pouvoir à l'homme le plus vertueux qui soit, vous le verrez bientôt changer d'attitude.

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• L'homme vraiment supérieur, c'est l'homme circonspect lorsqu'il délibère, parce qu'il pèse tous les risques possibles, mais audacieux lorsqu'il agit.

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• La divinité aime rabaisser tout ce qui s'élève.

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• La hâte engendre en tout l'erreur, et de l'erreur sort bien souvent le désastre.

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• Le ciel ne permet l'orgueil à personne d'autre que lui.

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• Le début ne laisse pas présager la fin.

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