Education: 'Those who have actually lived them, best teach the lessons of life. Everyone should have role models. It is wise to seek friendship with those people who have achieved your own aspirations, and to work hard to learn from them, and even harder to give to them. Who could tell you more about the world than someone who has lived in it, and who could tell you more about the times than those who have traversed them?'

Change: 'Leave room for other possibilities in your life. When we have made up our minds about something or someone, we often never revisit the circumstances t…

Prudence: 'Speak rarely, but then speak carefully. Speak with great calculation and discretion before your rivals and with great nobility of manner before frie…

Appearances: 'It is better to be respected as wise than feared as cunning. Being clever is no fault, nor is calculating necessarily devious, but virtue often a…

Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will lea…

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?