The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

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

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.