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Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.
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“I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 1, Ch.5.
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 1, Ch. 8.
“When this response reached Croesus, it afforded him far more pleasure than anything else the oracle had told him, because he was sure that a mule would never replace a man as the Persian king, and that in consequence he and his descendants would rule for ever. He next turned his mind to investigating which was the most powerful Greek state, so that he could gain them as his allies. As a result of his enquiries, he discovered that Lacedaemon and Athens were the outstanding states, and that Lacedaemon was populated by Dorians while Athens was populated by Ionians. For these two peoples—the one Pelasgian, the other Hellenic—had been pre-eminent in the old days. The Pelasgians never migrated anywhere, but the Hellenes were a very well-travelled race. When Deucalion was their king, they were living in Phthia, but in the time of Dorus the son of Hellen they were in the territory around Mounts Ossa and Olympus, known as Histiaeotis. Then they were evicted from Histiaeotis by the Cadmeans and settled on Mount Pindus, where they were called Macedonians. Next they moved to Dryopis, and from Dryopis they finally reached the Peloponnese and became known as the Dorians.”
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Quote source: Book 1, Ch. 56; as translated in The Histories (1998) by Robin Waterfield and Carolyn Dewald pp. 23-24 , 9780192824257
“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: • Book 1, Ch. 87.
“It was a kind of Cadmean victory.”
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Quote source: Book 1, Ch. 166, refering to a victory where both sides suffer extreme losses. Derived from the legends of Thebes, where the sons of Oedipus, and hence descendants of Cadmus, fought to the death.
“I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 2, Ch. 35.
“From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 2, Ch. 120.
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 2, Ch. 173.
“For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best”
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Quote source: Book 3, Ch. 38
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“Force has no place where there is need of skill.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 3, Ch. 127.
“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
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Quote source: Book 4, Ch. 74.
“Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 5, Ch. 20, 4 (Loeb).
“Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 5, Ch. 22, 1 (Loeb).
“But Alexander (I of Macedon), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first place.”
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Quote source: Book 5, Ch. 22, 2.
“It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7 , Ch. 10.
“Haste in every business brings failures.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 10.
“When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.”
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 46.
“Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 49.
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“Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
“I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 152.
“Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 210.
“The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 211.
“Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, "All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight."”
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 226.
“Stranger, tell the people of Lacedaemon That we who lie here obeyed their commands.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 7, Ch. 228.
“From Peloponnesos (came) the Lakedaimonians..., the Corinthians..., the Sikyonians..., the Epidaurians..., the Troiezenians... All these (groups)... belong to the Dorian and Macedonian nation (and) had emigrated last from Erineus and Pindos and Dryopis.”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 8, Ch. 43.
“"It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs."”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 8, Ch. 60.
“"At sea your men will be as far inferior to Greeks as women are to men." (By Artemisa, the best persian warrior in Salamina, a very courageous woman. A superbe irony!).”
— Herodotus
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Quote source: Book 8, Ch. 68.
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