Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.