Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.