Herodotus

An interview with Herodotus.

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Q: You have been a traveler.

Herodotus: To many lands.

Q: What use was it to travel?

Herodotus: All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

Q: You were ever afraid?

Herodotus: Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. 

Q: Did you pray to gods?

Herodotus: The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Q: Some say you may have, shall we say, “embellished” your accounts?

Herodotus: Very few things happen at the right time. The rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Q: I take your point. How can we understand truth from mere facts?

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