In truth, no one is wise enough by himself, and he who teaches himself has a fool for a master. Anyone who would aspire to fulfilled and successful living must of a necessity put himself at the disposal of another's superior knowledge and wisdom.
For, what, after all, is wisdom if not to learn all one can, and then have the humility to realize and admit that one does not know it all? How can you fly the way the eagle flies, if you do not perch on his back, and spread out the way he spreads his wings? When you humbly sit at the feet of someone more successful and wiser than you are, his superi
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