Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty..

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy..

Egypt is the gift of the Nile..

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house w….

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

Chances rule men and not men chances..

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

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

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered..

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..

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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..

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 ….

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

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

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