167 Quotes by Herodotus

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

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.

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

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.

The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.