Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.