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

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.