Herodotus Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

  Herodotus

  Heart, Evil, Suffering

  Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

  Herodotus

  Power, Men, Suffering

• It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

  Herodotus

  Pride, Tree, Suffering

• God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

  Herodotus

  Suffering, Doe, Presumption

• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

  Herodotus

  Men, Suffering, Wheels

  Herodotus (1990). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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