Author of quotes: Herodotus

... Then, seeing that the choice is inevitable - either to kill his master, or to fall at the hands of the executioners himself, - he chose life for himself

The gods don't like happy people.

Your health is clean air, water and food. Get up in the morning with joy, go to bed with a smile. You are happy, you smile - it means you are healthy. Do not heal the disease, heal your life, live according to the laws of nature, reason. When there is no health, wisdom is silent, art cannot flourish, forces do not play, wealth is useless and reason is powerless.

Circumstances rule men and not men circumstances.

Don't correct the trouble trouble.

If I could give all peoples in the world to choose the best from all customs and manners, that every people, carefully examined them, would choose their own.

Women along with clothes saulcat with myself and ashamed.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

Do not call anybody happy until he died.

Death is a delightful hiding place for Istomina people.

Abduction of women, however, it is unfair, but to try to take revenge for the kidnapping, according to the Persians, reckless. In any case, the wise is the one who doesn't care about the kidnapped women. It's clear that women are not kidnapped would be if they themselves did not want. According to the Persians, the Asians don't pay any attention to the abduction of women, the Greeks, on the contrary, for women of Lacedaemon assembled a great army, and then crossed into Asia and shattered the power of Priam. Since that time, the Persians have always recognized the Hellenes to be their enemies.

Nobody can be so insane to want war instead of peace, because when peace, children bury their fathers, and when the war, the fathers bury their children.

People who dared to act, are usually good luck; on the contrary, they rarely are people who only are engaged in that weigh and slow.

Since ancient times people have wise and beautiful sayings; from them we must learn.