The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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

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

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

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.