If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
HERODOTUSCircumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
More Herodotus Quotes
-
-
Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUS -
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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 -
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.
HERODOTUS -
Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS -
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUS -
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
HERODOTUS -
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS -
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
HERODOTUS -
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
HERODOTUS -
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUS -
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
HERODOTUS -
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUS -
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUS -
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
HERODOTUS