Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)