The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.