Quotes By 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.

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

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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

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

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.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

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.

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.

In soft regions are born soft men.

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

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