Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all… - Miguel de Cervantes

nuestra alma es de naturaleza enteramente independiente del cuerpo, y, por consiguiente, que no está sujeta a morir con él; y puesto que no vemos otras causas que la destruyan, nos inclinaremos naturalmente a juzgar que es inmortal.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

he who has no intention of paying does not trouble himself about difficulties when he is striking the bargain.