Herodotus quotes - page 2

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water. (Herodotus)
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
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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 day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
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When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
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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. (Herodotus)
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. (Herodotus)
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.
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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
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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.
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Stranger, tell the people of Lacedaemon That we who lie here obeyed their commands.
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