For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
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.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.