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Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.
Also known as: Herodotos
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This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.
Haste in every business brings failures.
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
Stranger, tell the people of Lacedaemon
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.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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