The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

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

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

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.