When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.