Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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