The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

All is as thinking makes it so

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.