Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.