"Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence ha..."
- Herodotus
"Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, without reckoning intercalary months, twenty-five thousand and two hundred days. Add an intercalary month ..."
"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 for fear of what might happen."
"Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men."
"The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which t..."
"It is better to be envied than pitied."
"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
"Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects."
"This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."