The eye altering, 

alters all.

Sciences may be learned by rote, 

but wisdom not.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Falsehood is easy, 

truth so difficult.

 

It is dangerous to be right in matters 

on which the established authorities are wrong.

My fate has been 

that what I undertook 

was fully understood 

only after the fact.

Virtues, 

like essences, 

lose their fragrance 

when exposed.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, 

but in the achievement of it.

Thoughts create a new heaven, 

a new firmament, 

a new source of energy, 

from which new arts flow.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

With enough courage, 

you can do without a reputation.

It does not matter how badly you paint 

so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Everybody is ignorant, 

only on different subjects.

 

My imagination is a monastery 

and I am its monk.

The surest way to fail 

is not to determine to succeed.