History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.