Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Herodotus
Historian
Politician
Writer
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Herodotus
Father of History
Regions
Soft
Born
Men
Life
More quotes by 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
Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus
Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
Herodotus
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
Herodotus
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
Herodotus
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
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus
A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
Herodotus
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Herodotus
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 days journey and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
Herodotus
The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
Herodotus
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
Herodotus
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
Herodotus
Let there be nothing untried for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Herodotus
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
Herodotus
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Herodotus
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
Herodotus
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
Herodotus
For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.
Herodotus
