God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Great things are won by great dangers.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

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.