All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.