167 Quotes by Herodotus

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.

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

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.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

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.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.