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.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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