The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.