The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.