“Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity.”

In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen

O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Leap, and the net will appear.