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.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.