Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's$$$ we rob them of tomorrow.
There is often not so much perfection in works composed of many pieces and made by the hands of various master craftsmen as there is in those works on which but a single individual has worked.
My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.
It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
Those who move but very slowly$$$ may advance much farther$$$ if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.
All that is necessary to right action is right judgment$$$ and to the best action the most correct judgment.
You have to believe. Otherwise$$$ it will never happen.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.