The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Envy, Failure, Success, 0 Herodotus Copy
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Change, Happiness, Impermanence, 0 Herodotus Copy
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Obedience, Reasoning, Wisdom, 0 Herodotus Copy
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Nature, Peace, War, 0 Herodotus Copy
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Influence, Misfortune, Wisdom, 0 Herodotus Copy
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Effort, Persistence, Success, 0 Herodotus Copy
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Insight, Power, Suffering, 0 Herodotus Copy
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Change, Perception, Time, 0 Herodotus Copy
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Foolishness, Mob, Outrage, 0 Herodotus Copy
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Despair, Escape, Mortality, 0 Herodotus Copy
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Frustration, Knowledge, Power, 0 Herodotus Copy
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Abundance, Possibility, Time, 0 Herodotus Copy
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Authority, Skepticism, Truth, 0 Herodotus Copy
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Deity, Jealousy, Success, 0 Herodotus Copy
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Divine, Faith, Inevitability, 0 Herodotus Copy
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Femininity, Respect, Society, 0 Herodotus Copy
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Mortality, Struggle, Suffering, 0 Herodotus Copy
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Hierarchy, Power, Relationships, 0 Herodotus Copy
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Government, Leadership, Unity, 0 Herodotus Copy
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Death, Fate, Perspective, 0 Herodotus Copy
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Comparison, Envy, Pity, 0 Herodotus Copy
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Deities, Fate, Humility, 0 Herodotus Copy
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Fortune, Happiness, Wealth, 0 Herodotus Copy
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Power, Strength, Superiority, 0 Herodotus Copy
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herodotus, Error, Haste, Losses, 0 Herodotus Copy
Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents. Richard Condon Novelist · USA
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. Mary Ritter Beard Historian · USA
