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.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.