A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice..

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence..

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest..

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens..

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours..

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered..

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the i….

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke ….

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life….

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..

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs..

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise..

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace..

Chances rule men and not men chances..

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act..

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods..

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob..

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes..

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin..

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed..

Haste in every business brings failures..