All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.