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

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.