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.
HERODOTUSOne 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.
HERODOTUSThe gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
HERODOTUSBefore a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUSThe ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUSGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUSChances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUSThe Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
HERODOTUSThe man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
HERODOTUSThere is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUSAdversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
HERODOTUSThese ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
HERODOTUSI know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUS