How many evils have flowed from religion.

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.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

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.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.