Intelligence is not borne out of self-discipline or suppression. In the one instance it is wholly the pursuit of desire, the primitive man pursuing the object he desires. In the other instance, the intelligent man sees the significance of desire and sees the conflict; the primitive man does not, he pursues anything he desires and creates suffering and pain. So to me self-discipline and suppression are both alike—they both deny intelligence.

Seneca believed that “philosophers don’t practice what they preach” What counts, is one’s attitude toward wealth, which is the wise man’s servant and the fool’s master; he, like any good Stoic, could lose all he had without being a whit less happy. 

Interesting:  Aristotle defined vice as the ways of behaving least conducive to happiness and virtue as the ways of behaving most conducive to happiness.   Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason has yet to voyage. 

Charlie Munger was Warren Buffet’s business partner.  

How is it that in a city so fine as Babylon, wealthiest in the world at the time, there are haphazard arrays of living arrangements, with some poor and some wealthy? How is it that good, honest men will toil ceaselessly but barely have enough money for food, and at the end of the day be left with as little as the king's slaves carrying water from the Euphrates?  

Do not criticize or condemn.   To know all is to forgive all.