There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

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

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.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.