Best Herodotus Quotes

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

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

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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

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 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.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.