“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.”

“Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti(Follow your road and let the people say)”

“Perceive ye not that we are worms, designedTo form the angelic butterfly, that goesTo judgment, leaving all defence behind?Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,Since ye, disabled, are as insects, meanAs worm which never transformation knows?”

“all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.”

“Other response, he said, I make thee not,Except the doing; for the modest askingOught to be followed by the deed in silence.”

“This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.”