Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
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.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.