Sublime

He who begins to be your friend because it pays will also cease because it pays.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Stoic philosopher Epictetus put it this way: “Above all, keep a close watch on this—that you are never so tied to your former acquaintances and friends that you are pulled down to their level. If you don’t, you’ll be ruined …. You must choose whether to be loved by these friends and remain the same person, or to become a better person at the cost o

et comme une démarche modeste sied à l'homme sage, il lui faut un langage concis, point aventureux. Ainsi, pour conclusion dernière, je te recommande d'être lent à parler.

LIES PEOPLE TELL

Beaucoup, je crois, seraient arrivés à la sagesse, s'ils n'eussent imaginé l'avoir atteinte, s'ils ne se fussent dissimulé en partie leurs imperfections ou n'eussent passé sur celles qui frappaient le plus leurs yeux. Car ne crois pas que les flatteries d'autrui nous soient plus mortelles que les nôtres. Qui ose se dire la vérité ? Qui,