Frases de Heródoto

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“En tiempos de guerra son los padres quienes entierran a los hijos.”

“Si uno empieza con certezas acabará con dudas pero si se conforma con empezar con dudas conseguirá acabar con certezas aún faltando las palabras.”

“La democracia lleva el más bello nombre que existe, igualdad.”

“De todos los infortunios que afligen a la humanidad el más amargo es que hemos de tener conciencia de mucho y control de nada.”

“Ningún hombre es tan tonto como para desear la guerra y no la paz; pues en la paz los hijos llevan a sus padres a la tumba, en la guerra son los padres quienes llevan a los hijos a la tumba.”

“La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio.”

“Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos.”

“Es más fácil embaucar a muchos juntos que a uno solo.”

“Tu estado de ánimo es tu destino.”

“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.”

“Pero contra malhechores extraordinarios, hay que disponer de extraordinarios recursos. Mandaremos”

“It was a kind of Cadmean victory.”

“The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.”

“For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best”

“When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.”

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.”

“Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.”

“It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.”

“Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.”

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

“At sea your men will be as far inferior to Greeks as women are to men.”

“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.”