To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect.
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
One’s thoughts turn towards Hope.
Love, Fear, and Esteem, – Write these on three stones.
You don’t get into trouble because of the things you don’t know. It is the things you don’t know you don’t know that really get you into a mess.
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.
When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
For youth, everything is sport.
Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.