If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

God built the universe on numbers.

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.