Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.