Eagles Don't Catch Flies.

A Nail Is Driven Out By Another Nail. Habit Is Overcome By Habit.

At Last Concluded That No Creature Was More Miserable Than Man, For That All Other Creatures Are Content With Those Bounds That Nature Set Them, Only Man Endeavors To Exceed Them.

Frugality Is A Handsome Income.

What Difference Is There, Do You Think, Between Those In Plato's Cave Who Can Only Marvel At The Shadows And Images Of Various Objects, Provided They Are Content And Don't Know What They Miss, And The Philosopher Who Has Emerged From The Cave And Sees The Real Things?

As An Example Of Just How Useless These Philosophers Are For Any Practice In Life There Is Socrates Himself, The One And Only Wise Man, According To The Delphic Oracle. Whenever He Tried To Do Anything In Public He Had To Break Off Amid General Laughter. While He Was Philosophizing About Clouds And Ideas, Measuring A Flea's Foot And Marveling At A Midge's Humming, He Learned Nothing About The Affairs Of Ordinary Life.