All Herodotus Quotes
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
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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.
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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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