The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.