Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.