Herodotus Quotes

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk...

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their ...

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs ...

Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, withou...

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter...

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best cus...

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Great things are won by great dangers.

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the ...

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good ...

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious histo...

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the on...

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than...

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary...

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

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

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion o...

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things...

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...

When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden...

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it...

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate t...

Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in pr...

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'The ...