Herodotus Quotes
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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.
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It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
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They the Persians are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
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In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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It Egypt has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
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The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
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It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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.
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.