Herodotus Quotes

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• To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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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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  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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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  Precious Possessions, Possession, Precious Friends

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

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  Business, Fall, Men

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• As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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  Together, Doe, Saws

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• Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

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  Heart, Evil, Suffering

  Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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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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