Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.