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“beans moreover the Egyptians do not at all sow in their land, and those which grow they neither eat raw nor boil for food; nay the priests do not endure even to look upon them, thinking this to be an unclean kind of pulse:”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks; among the matters covered is, in particular, the cause of the hostilities between Greeks and non-Greeks.”
― Herodotus, Histories

“nenhum homem pode dizer-se feliz enquanto respirarâ€�,”
― Herodotus, Histórias - Livros 1 a 9 [com notas]

“Acrescentam alguns que foi a pitonisa quem lhe ditou a constituição ora vigente em Esparta; mas como julgam os próprios Lacedemônios, Licurgo trouxe as referidas leis de Creta, no reinado de Leobotas, seu sobrinho, rei de Esparta. Realmente,”
― Herodotus, Histórias - Livros 1 a 9 [com notas]

“Acrescentam alguns que foi a pitonisa quem lhe ditou a constituição ora vigente em Esparta; mas como julgam os próprios Lacedemônios, Licurgo trouxe as referidas leis de Creta, no reinado de Leobotas, seu sobrinho, rei de Esparta.”
― Herodotus, Histórias - Livros 1 a 9 [com notas]

“Porque nadie es tan necio que prefiera la guerra a la paz: en ésta los hijos entierran a sus padres, y en aquella los padres a los hijos.”
― Herodotus, Los Nueve Libros de la Historia

“Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.”
― Herodotus, Los Nueve Libros de la Historia

“es propio de gente cuerda y política, porque bien claro está que si ellas no lo quisiesen de veras nunca hubieran sido robadas.”
― Herodotus, Los nueve libros de la historia

“At the notion of having Hippocleides as his son-in-law, Cleisthenes did not wish to make his displeasure public. The sight of Hippocleides pumping his legs in the air to the music, however, was the final straw. ‘Son of Tisander,â€� he declared, ‘you have danced away your marriage.â€� To which Hippocleides retorted: ‘Hippocleides could not care less!â€�. And that was how the celebrated phrase first came to be uttered.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“Better not to flinch from anything and suffer terribly for it half the time, than always to imagine that everything will turn out for the worst, and never suffer at all.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“[I]f it were proposed to all nations to choose which seemed best of all customs, each, after examination, would place its own first; so well is each convinced that its own are by far the best.

(Book 3 Chapter 38.1)”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“Artabanus answered and said, “O king, may the vision that appeared in my dream bring such an end as we both desire! But I am even now full of fear and beside myself for many reasons, especially when I see that the two greatest things in the world are your greatest enemies.â€�

Xerxes made this response: “Are you possessed? What are these two things that you say are my greatest enemies? Is there some fault with the numbers of my land army? Does it seem that the Greek army will be many times greater than ours? Or do you think that our navy will fall short of theirs? Or that the fault is in both? If our power seems to you to lack anything in this regard, it would be best to muster another army as quickly as possible.�

Artabanus answered and said, “O king, there is no fault that any man of sound judgment could find either with this army or with the number of your ships; and if you gather more, those two things I speak of become even much more your enemies. These two are the land and the sea. The sea has nowhere any harbor, as I conjecture, that will be able to receive this navy and save your ships if a storm arise. Yet there has to be not just one such harbor, but many of them all along the land you are sailing by. Since there are no harbors able to receive you, understand that men are the subjects and not the rulers of their accidents. I have spoken of one of the two, and now I will tell you of the other. The land is your enemy in this way: if nothing is going to stand in your way and hinder you, the land becomes more your enemy the further you advance, constantly unaware of what lies beyond; no man is ever satisfied with success. So I say that if no one opposes you, the increase of your territory and the time passed in getting it will breed famine. The best man is one who is timid while making plans because he takes into account all that may happen to him, but is bold in action.�

(Book 7 Chapter 47.2-49)”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“His [Xerxes'] uncle Artabanus perceived this, he who in the beginning had spoken his mind freely and advised Xerxes not to march against Hellas. Marking how Xerxes wept, he questioned him and said, “O king, what a distance there is between what you are doing now and a little while ago! After declaring yourself blessed you weep.â€�

Xerxes said, “I was moved to compassion when I considered the shortness of all human life, since of all this multitude of men not one will be alive a hundred years from now.�

Artabanus answered, “In one life we have deeper sorrows to bear than that. Short as our lives are, there is no human being either here or elsewhere so fortunate that it will not occur to him, often and not just once, to wish himself dead rather than alive. Misfortunes fall upon us and sicknesses trouble us, so that they make life, though short, seem long. Life is so miserable a thing that death has become the most desirable refuge for humans; the god is found to be envious in this, giving us only a taste of the sweetness of living.�

(Book 7 Chapter 46)”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“for, after all, it was not a god who threatened Greece, but a man, and there neither was nor ever would be a man who was not born with a good chance of misfortune â€� and the greater the man, the greater the misfortune. The present enemy was no exception; he too was human, and was sure to be disappointed of his great expectations.”
― Herodotus, The Histories