Acted like a king to be treated like one. - Robert Greene

Immersing yourself in details will combat the generalizing tendencies of the brain and bring you closer to reality.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything. A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.