The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters].
Width of life is more important than length of life.
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.