From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.