Words matter. These are the best Herodotus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Great things are won by great dangers.
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.
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.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
A man calumniated is doubly injured – first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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.
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.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
In soft regions are born soft men.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
