Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

The moment is timeless.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.