But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles we….

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs..

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all..

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters..

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence..

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event..

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

Men trust their ears less than their eyes..

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing..

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the mo….

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless..

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by i….

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 br….

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate..

And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as….

the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which….

My men have become women, but the women men..

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S.….

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid payin….

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long..

It is better to be envied than pitied..