All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people. - Robert Greene

As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history — the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen