Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.