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

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

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