It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.