The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.