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

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 trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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

These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.