27 Total Quotes
Herodotus Herodotus Quotes
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
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.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
The worst pain a man can suffer: 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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
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.