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

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

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.