"Il ne manque cependant à l’oisiveté du sage qu’un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et être tranquille s’ap…"

"There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom."

"En un descuido puede caer el mayor sabio, pero en dos no; y de paso, que no de asiento."

"Nothing better or happier can befall a man than to be in the proximity of one of those victorious ones, who, precisel…"

"He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself."

"The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God."

"I cannot understand how some people can live without communicating with the wisest people who ever lived on earth."

"A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightne…"

"In the higher degrees of Scottish Freemasonry, there are two mottos whose meaning is related to some of the considera…"

"In absolute clarity, one sees as little as in absolute darkness. Pure light and pure darkness are two voids, they are…"