When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

The days are long enough for those who use them.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.