"The sage is not ill, because he..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.”

“Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.”

“Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?”

“A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.”

“Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.”

“Of all exercises, walking is the best.”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.”

“To love beauty is to see light.”