It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
More Herodotus Quotes
-
-
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUS -
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 -
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUS -
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUS -
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HERODOTUS -
Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUS -
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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.
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 -
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HERODOTUS -
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
HERODOTUS -
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
HERODOTUS -
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
HERODOTUS -
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUS -
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUS