Quotes By Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

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

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

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

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

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

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

Great things are won by great dangers.

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

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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

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.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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

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

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

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

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

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.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

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.

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.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

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

In soft regions are born soft men.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

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

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