Quote #19
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
More from Herodotus
- Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
- 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 …
- When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
- I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
- Haste in every business brings failures.
- Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.
- It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
- The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amat…