black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

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

Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUS

Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
HERODOTUS

God Greatness Love
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUS

Eyes Man Music Trust
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUS

Convinced Nature See
Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS

Death Happiness Himself Men
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
HERODOTUS

Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
My men have become women, but the women men.
HERODOTUS

Courage Men Women
Some 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.
HERODOTUS

Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
These ‘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.
HERODOTUS

Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HERODOTUS

Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
HERODOTUS

Death Life Refuge
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUS

Ears Eye Trust
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.
HERODOTUS

Break Cheating Fear Men Place
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HERODOTUS

Beginning End Together
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
HERODOTUS

Dream Incident Rise

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Herodotus Quotes