Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half