It is the hither accomplishment to use money well than to use arms; but not to need it is more noble than to use it. - Plutarch

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.