Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.