Herodotus

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made and if it is then approved they act on it if not they set it aside. Sometimes however they are sober at their first deliberations but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.