The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

Life well spent is long.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.