Herodotus Quotes

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• But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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  Home, Ideas, Would Be

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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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  Grief, Destiny, Events

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• The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

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  Envy, Secret, Absence

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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.

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  Fun, Men, Knowing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.

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  Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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  Trust, Music, Eye

  Herodotus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herodotus (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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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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  Adversity, Men, Drawing

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• Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

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  Use, Littles, Force

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  Haste in every business brings failures.

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  Business, Failure, Haste

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.

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• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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  Precious Possessions, Possession, Precious Friends

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• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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  Peace, Father, Military

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• The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

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  Pain, Knowledge, Men

  Herodotus, Joseph C. Farber, Aubrey De Sélincourt (1975). “Democracy's First Struggle: Herodotus' Histories”

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  It is better to be envied than pitied.

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  Envy, Envied

  Herodotus (1829). “Herodotus: Tr. from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes”, p.212

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• I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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  Long, Humans, Remains

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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• When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

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  Garments, Remove

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• Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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  Men, Chance, Circumstances

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 49, c. 440 BC.

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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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  Passion, Risk, Action

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• Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

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  Learning, Men, Trying

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• 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.

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  Men, Action, Planning

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• The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

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  Wise, Men, Hateful

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• Great things are won by great dangers.

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  Danger, Great Things

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Reflecting Upon, Inspire

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• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

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  Power, Men, Suffering

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• If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

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  Health, Two, Soul

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• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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  Time, History, Eternity

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• Call no man happy before he dies.

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  Happiness, Men, Dies

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