This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

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

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

I wish to work miracles.