The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

Poor is the man who desires a lot.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, Write these on three stones.