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Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
Call no man happy before he dies.
In soft regions are born soft men.
Chances rule men and not men chances.
Great things are won by great dangers.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Haste in every business brings failures.
A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
My men have become women, but the women men.
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.