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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
Explore more quotes by Herodotus
"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."
"One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end."
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh."
"A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it."
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