Herodotus Quotes (59 Quotes)
- This I know - if all men should take their troubles to the market to barter with their neighbors, not one, when he had seen the troubles of other men, but would be glad to carry his own home again.
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- Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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- Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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- 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.
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- Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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- The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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- No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace. For in peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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- Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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- The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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- Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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- I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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- The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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- This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
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- A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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- The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
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