“Continual dropping wears away a stone.”

“E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumenqui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae,te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nuncficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amoremquod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundocycnis, aut quid nam tremulis facere artubus haediconsimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?tu, pater, es rerum inventor, tu patria nobissuppeditas praecepta, tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.nam simul ac ratio tua coepit vociferarinaturam rerum divina mente coortadiffugiunt animi terrores, moenia mundidiscedunt. totum video per inane geri res.apparet divum numen sedesque quietae,quas neque concutiunt venti nec nubila nimbisaspergunt neque nix acri concreta pruinacana cadens violat semper[que] innubilus aetherintegit et large diffuso lumine ridet:omnia suppeditat porro natura neque ullares animi pacem delibat tempore in ullo.”

“Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.”

“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”

“Truths kindle light for truths.”

“Only religion can lead to such evil.”

“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.”