"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

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

"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

"An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and ta…"