Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.