The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.