The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.