True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
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.
There is no illness of the body except for the mind
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.