A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

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.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.