Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
Herodotus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Herodotus
Historian
Politician
Writer
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Herodotus
Father of History
Whatever
Pride
Thwart
Love
Rest
Tallest
Tree
Bolts
Bring
Thunder
Greatest
Trees
Greater
Gods
Anyone
Suffer
Suffering
Lows
More quotes by Herodotus
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Herodotus
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
Herodotus
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Herodotus
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Herodotus
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
Herodotus
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
Herodotus
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Herodotus
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
Herodotus
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
Herodotus
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Herodotus
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
Herodotus
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
Herodotus
Let there be nothing untried for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Herodotus
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
Herodotus
In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus
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
