Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.

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