The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.