Herodotus Quotes
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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.
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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.
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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.
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Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
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For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.