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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 (Herodotus Quotes)
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 (Herodotus Quotes)
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 (Herodotus Quotes)
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 (Herodotus Quotes)
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever (Herodotus Quotes)
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing (Herodotus Quotes)
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 (Herodotus Quotes)
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 (Herodotus Quotes)
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects (Herodotus Quotes)
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds (Herodotus Quotes)
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children (Herodotus Quotes)
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed (Herodotus Quotes)
The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing (Herodotus Quotes)
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes (Herodotus Quotes)
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen (Herodotus Quotes)
The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive (Herodotus Quotes)
If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it (Herodotus Quotes)
Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences (Herodotus Quotes)
No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons (Herodotus Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the affectation of an archaic (Herodotus Quotes)
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods (Herodotus Quotes)
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing (Herodotus Quotes)
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it (Herodotus Quotes)
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing (Herodotus Quotes)
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act (Herodotus Quotes)
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 (Herodotus Quotes)
These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night (Herodotus Quotes)
I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see (Herodotus Quotes)
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons (Herodotus Quotes)