"Not to speak of Pythagorean beans, from which, it is said, Pythagoras himself abstained."

"The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone."

"Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate."

"The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides."

"Do not speak a little on many subjects, but much on a few."