One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.