Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.