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.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher and wisdom begins in wonder.

The best seasoning for food is hunger for drink, thirst.

Wealth is a lot of things that a man can do without.

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Self-awareness is a way of healing from unconscious conflict since it offers an opportunity for the individual to analyze the nature of his or her interpersonal relationships and with the self.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher, and that is good to any man.

Contentment is the soil in which true joy grows.

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.