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Herodotus BC 484-425, Greek Historian

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.


Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.


How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.


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


Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus, The Histories

If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.


After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.


Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.


The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.


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


How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.


In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.


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Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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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.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

No one should be so foolish to prefer war to peace.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.

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

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

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.

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.
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.
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.
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.
He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment.
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.

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