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

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

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

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

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.

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.

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