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.

A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.

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.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.