Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

A work well begun is half-ended.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.