For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

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.

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

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.