Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

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

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.