Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.