The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

- Herodotus

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles we…

- Herodotus

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

- Herodotus

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

- Herodotus

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject …

- Herodotus

Haste in every business brings failures.

- Herodotus

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

- Herodotus

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

- Herodotus

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing …

- Herodotus