I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.

The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.