Herodotus
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.Collection: Jealousy
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.Collection: War
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.Collection: Death
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.Collection: Truth
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.Collection: Knowledge
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.Collection: Freedom
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.Collection: Men
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.Collection: Knowledge
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.Collection: Chance
The destiny of man is in his own soul.Collection: Brainy
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.Collection: Peace
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Best
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.Collection: Friendship
Great things are won by great dangers.Collection: Great
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.Collection: Men
Force has no place where there is need of skill.Collection: Strength
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.Collection: God
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Fear
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.Collection: Men
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.Collection: Trust
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Home
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.Collection: Envy
Haste in every business brings failures.Collection: Business
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.Collection: Adversity
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.Collection: Grief
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.Collection: Use
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.Collection: Peace
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Thinking
It is better to be envied than pitied.Collection: Envy
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Passion
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.Collection: Learning
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.Collection: Happens
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.Collection: Life Is
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.Collection: Men
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Heart
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Cheating
If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.Collection: Drunk
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.Collection: Memorable
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.Collection: God Love
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.Collection: Time
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 ownCollection: Men