When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.