How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
HERODOTUSBut 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.
More Herodotus Quotes
-
-
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 -
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HERODOTUS -
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUS -
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
HERODOTUS -
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUS -
Great things are won by great dangers.
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 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 -
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HERODOTUS -
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
HERODOTUS -
Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUS -
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUS -
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HERODOTUS -
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS -
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUS