Herodotus Quotes
- In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
- Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
- The destiny of man is in his own soul.
- But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
- The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
- 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…
- Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever…
- The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
- 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…
- Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.