Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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 imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

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