Some promises and time disappoint us

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

In time and with water, everything changes.

simplicity is the best sophistication