An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)