Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.