Quotes by "Herodotus"

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.

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

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.

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.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

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

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.

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

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

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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