The First Precept Was Never To Accept

Even If I Were To Suppose That I Was Dreaming And Whatever I Saw Or Imagined Was False, Yet I Could Not Deny That Ideas Were Truly In My Mind.

There Is Nothing More Ancient Than The Truth.

The Greatest Minds, As They Are Capable Of The Highest Excellencies, Are Open Likewise To The Greatest Aberrations; And Those Who Travel Very Slowly May Yet Make Far Greater Progress, Provided They Keep Always To The Straight Road, Than Those Who, While They Run, Forsake It.

When I Consider This Carefully, I Find Not A Single Property Which With Certainty Separates The Waking State From The Dream. How Can You Be Certain That Your Whole Life Is Not A Dream?

The Object Of Music Is A Sound. The End; To Delight, And Move Various Affections In Us.