The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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.

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