Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.