Quote #18
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
More from Herodotus
- When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
- Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Haste in every business brings failures.
- 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 …
- It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
- I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
- 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…
- Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.