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Danh ngôn của Herodotus (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
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.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
In soft regions are born soft men.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Great things are won by great dangers.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.