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Herodotus [-484--409] Greek

Rank: 101
Historian

Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire and lived in the fifth century BC, a contemporary of Socrates.

Men, God, Great, Knowledge, Peace, Brainy, Chance, Change, Death, Design, Equality, Fear, Friendship, Good, Intelligence, Jealousy, Respect, Strength, Success, Trust, Truth, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.	Friendship	101
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.	Chance, Great	102
Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.	God	103
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.	Good, Knowledge	104
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.		105
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.	Peace, War	106
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.	Men, Trust	107
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.	Death, Men	108
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.	Men	109
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.		110
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.	Truth	111
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.	Design	112
Force has no place where there is need of skill.	Strength	113
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.		114
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.	Success	115
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.	Fear	116
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.		117
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.	Respect	118
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.	Change	119
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.		120
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.		121
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.	Jealousy	122
A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.		123
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.	Peace	124
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.		125
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.		126
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.	Knowledge	201
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.	Men	202
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.		203
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.	Equality	204
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.	Intelligence	205
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.	God	206
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.		207
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.		208
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.		209
The destiny of man is in his own soul.	Brainy	210
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.		211
Great things are won by great dangers.	Great	212
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.		213
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.		214
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.		215
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.		216
In soft regions are born soft men.		217
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.		218

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