The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

You can never step in the same river twice.

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.