black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUS

Country Egypt World
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HERODOTUS

Forever History Time
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUS

Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUS

Friendship Material Value
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

Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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

Himself Men Politics Rule
Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUS

Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy One Liner
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUS

Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
HERODOTUS

Age Chilren Education
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUS

Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUS

Chance Men Rule
In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUS

Born Life Men
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUS

Ears Eye Trust
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HERODOTUS

Beginning End Together

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Herodotus Quotes