But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.