black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Herodotus

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
HERODOTUS

Death Father Peace War
Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUS

Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS

Business Failure Haste
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUS

Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUS

Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
HERODOTUS

Ourselves Shine War
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUS

Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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

Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUS

Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUS

Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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

Action Bold Men Moments Planning
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
HERODOTUS

God Greatness Lows
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUS

Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUS

Character Envy Human Kind Nature
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
HERODOTUS

God Greatness Jealous Success
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HERODOTUS

Effort Evil Philosophy War
My men have become women, but the women men.
HERODOTUS

Courage Men Women
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS

Foolish Outrage Useless War
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUS

Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUS

Naked Respect Women
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUS

Convinced Nature See
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
HERODOTUS

Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUS

Friendship Material Value
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
HERODOTUS

Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Herodotus Quotes