My body is not a tomb for animals.

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.