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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
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
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
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
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
— 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
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
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
— 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
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
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
— 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
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
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 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
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
— Herodotus
My men have become women, but the women men.
— Herodotus
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
— Herodotus
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
— Steven Pressfield
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
— 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
Force has no place where there is need of skill
— 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
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