The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.