"The water that you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

"The wise man will want to be rich only in order to be able to help himself and his friends."

"The greatest pleasure and the greatest knowledge is to understand why everything is as it is."

"The soul desires to dwell with the body, because without the corporeal instruments, it can neither act nor feel."

"The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if it were not a traditional custom and if there were no pretty faces and sensuous…"