One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.