Herodotus

“החיפזון הוא אם הכישלון.”

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

“God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.”

“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”

“The destiny of man is in his own soul.”

“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”

“He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.”

“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”

“The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.”

“There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.”

“Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.”

“Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

“When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.”

“Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.”

“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.”

“I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.”

“When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches to 3 foot long; he shows it to each guest in turn, and says: "Look upon this body as you drink and enjoy yourself; for you will be just like it when you are dead."[Herodotus ‘Histories’, II 82]”

“The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.”

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