167 Quotes by Herodotus

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

οὕτω ὦν Κροῖσε πᾶν ἐστι ἄνθρωπος συμφορή.""You can see from that, Croesus, that man is entirely a creature of chance” (Trans. de Sélincourt)

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

Hippocleides doesn't care.

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!

So much, then, for the fish.

Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.