Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.