The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.