Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

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

There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

The sun is new each day.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.