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

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things tog….

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be for….

Force has no place where there is need of skill..

Call no man happy before he dies..

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….

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky..

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back..

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing..

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king..

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as….

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious..

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children..

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons..

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….

Egypt is the gift of the Nile..

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determ….

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly se….

Great things are won by great dangers..

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to….

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia..