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Facts about Herodotus SummaryHerodotus was a famous Historian from Greece, who lived between 484 BC and 409 BC.Our collection contains 41 quotes who is written / told by Herodotus, under the main topics: Men, Trust, War. Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Euripides, Democritus, Plato, Socrates, Diogenes, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Protagoras Famous quotes by Herodotus (41)   "If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own"
"One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end"
"A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it"
"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 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"
"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"
"He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold"
"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"
"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace"
"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing"
"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects"
"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"
"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself"
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