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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky. — Herodotus

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. — Herodotus

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. — Herodotus

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus

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. — Herodotus

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. — Herodotus

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence. — Herodotus

Hippocleides doesn't care. — Herodotus

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. — Herodotus

We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior. — Deborah Harkness

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. — Herodotus

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

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. — Herodotus

Great things are won by great dangers. — Herodotus

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

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place. — Herodotus

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy. — Herodotus

So much, then, for the fish. — Herodotus

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

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. — Herodotus

The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest. — Herodotus

How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness! — Herodotus

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

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession. — Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. — Herodotus

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. — Herodotus

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. — Herodotus

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. — Herodotus

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks — Herodotus

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

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries. — Herodotus

Now stop your dancing; you wouldn't come out and dance when I played to you. — Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. — Herodotus

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

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

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

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered. — Herodotus

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace. — Herodotus

In soft regions are born soft men. — Herodotus

Chances rule men and not men chances. — Herodotus

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

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. — Herodotus

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. — Herodotus

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens. — Herodotus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. — Herodotus

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. — Herodotus

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. — Herodotus

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. — Herodotus

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike. — Herodotus

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours. — Herodotus

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise. — Herodotus

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. — Herodotus

Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and — Shashi Tharoor

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. — Herodotus

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. — Herodotus

The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. — Herodotus

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes. — Herodotus

Call no man happy before he dies. — Herodotus

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. — Herodotus

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus

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. — Herodotus

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act. — Herodotus

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use. — Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul. — Herodotus

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. — Herodotus

It is better to be envied than pitied. — Herodotus

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time. — Herodotus

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul. — Herodotus

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told. — Herodotus

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

My men have become women, but the women men. — Herodotus

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

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge. — Herodotus

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. — Herodotus

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye. — Herodotus

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. — Herodotus

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself. — Herodotus

It is the closest place to the stars on Earth. (Kalkan) — Herodotus

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield

human prosperity never abides long in the same place, — Herodotus

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. — Herodotus

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. — Herodotus

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs. — Herodotus

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying. — Herodotus

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. — Herodotus

Force has no place where there is need of skill — Herodotus

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. — Herodotus

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. — Herodotus

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. — Herodotus

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus

I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay. — Herodotus

Who the fuck's Herodotus?" Asked the Iceman. — Neil Gaiman

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year. — Herodotus

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin. — Herodotus