Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.