Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.