We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

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