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

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.