Herodotus
Herodotus
Herodotuswas a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Cariaand lived in the fifth century BC, a contemporary of Socrates. He is widely referred to as "The Father of History"; he was the first historian known to have broken from Homeric tradition to treat historical subjects as a method of investigation—specifically, by collecting his materials systematically and critically, and then arranging them into a historiographic narrative. The Histories is the only work which he is known to have produced, a record...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionHistorian
party calumny-is two
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.
two islands poverty
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
health two soul
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
injured man
A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
great jealous success
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
country good human provide single
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.
knowledge people
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
anticipate boldness cowardly evils fear half might noble remain run subject
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
evil good
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
death delightful weary
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
bolts god greater greatest houses tallest whatever
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.
bury fathers peace war
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
gods greater love punish
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
miseries
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.