#d

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. ↗

— Herodotus

#gods #great #great success #how #i

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. ↗

— Herodotus

#concerted #effort #evil #greater #greater evil

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. ↗

— Herodotus

#bolts #god #greater #greatest #his

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ↗

— Herodotus

#envied #how #much #pitied #than

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. ↗

— Herodotus

#believe #bound #case #every #i

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. ↗

— Herodotus

#exposed #illness #men #strikes

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. ↗

— Herodotus

#blessedness #come #end #everything #finally

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries. ↗

— Herodotus

#countries #men #soft #tend

The destiny of man is in his own soul. ↗

— Herodotus

#his #man #own #soul

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. ↗

— Herodotus

#bad one #badly #fortune #had #his