Quotes by : Herodotus

When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden....

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than....

The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things....

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

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian....

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of....