(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!