The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Excellent things are rare.
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.