"The beginning is half of the whole."

"Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths."

"Not to speak of Pythagorean beans, from which, it is said, Pythagoras himself abstained."

"Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What did I do wrong? What did I do right? What did I leave undone?"

"A chewed bean placed in the sun smells of human semen or of murderously spilt human blood."