It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

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