The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

The beginning is half of the whole.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.