“Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.”

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

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

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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

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

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

I’m really fortunate. I’m really happy, and I’m really really lucky to be where I am.