Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.