In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)