When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.