Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.