What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.