My men have become women, but the women men.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Great things are won by great dangers.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.