Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Little is known of his personal history. Herodotus (pron. : /hɨˈrɒdətəs/; Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Hēródotos) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus Caria (modern day Bodrum Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c.