No one wants advice, only corroboration. The Winter of Our Discontent

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Unpublished fragment

The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself... The Trials Of Socrates

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." The Analects of Confucius