My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Life well spent is long.
If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.