The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.