A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

In soft regions are born soft men.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.