Quote #16
Haste in every business brings failures.
More from Herodotus
- It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
- When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
- 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…
- Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
- Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.
- Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.
- 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 …