We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The sun is new each day.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.