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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.