He Who Laughs At Everything

A Person Of Your Century: Great Persons Are Of Their Time. Not All Were Born Into A Period Worthy Of Them, And Many So Born Failed To Benefit By It. Some Merited A Better Century, For All That Is Good Does Not Always Triumph. Fashions Have Their Periods And Even The Greatest Virtues, Their Styles. But The Philosopher, Being Ageless, Has One Advantage: Should This Not Prove The Right Century, Many To Follow Will.

You Should Aim To Be Independent Of Any One Vote, Of Any One Fashion, Of Any One Century.

There Are Friendships Merely For Pleasure, Some For The Exchange Of Ideas. Rarest Are Those Friends Of One's Inmost Self.

Know How To Use Evasion. That Is How Smart People Get Out Of Difficulties.

Maturity Of Mind Is Best Shown In Slow Belief.