167 Quotes by Herodotus

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

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

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.

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.