I know that human happiness never remains long in the same … - Herodotus

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

Herodotus

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.

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Native Name: Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς

Alternative Names: Herodotus of Halicarnassus • Father of History • Herodotos

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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

"At sea your men will be as far inferior to Greeks as women are to men." (By Artemisa, the best persian warrior in Salamina, a very courageous woman. A superbe irony!).

Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.

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

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