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.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.