The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.