When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
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.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.