“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”

“Like associates with like.”

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”

“Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.”

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”

“Be first the master of yourself”

“Epistemic humility limits certainty, plasticity enables change, but only coherence across time permits intelligence to move toward truth without disolving itself.”

“it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom”