Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.