Herodotus Quotes
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Herodotus Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.
The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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.
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.