Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?