“Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum.”

“Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)”

“Whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, This change is at once the death of that which was before”

“hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessestnon radii solis neque lucida tela dieidiscutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.(1.146ff.)Therefore it is necessary that neither the rays of the sun nor the shining spears of Day should shatter this terror and darkness of the mind, but the aspect and reason of nature...”

“A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,And yawns before he's put his foot inside,Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,Or even rushes back to town again.So each man flies from himself (vain hope, becauseIt clings to him the more closely against his will)And hates himself because he is sick in mindAnd does not know the cause of his disease.”

“...There is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ”

“Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.”