Men think that acting unjustly is in their power, and therefore that being just is easy. But it is not; to lie with one’s neighbor’s wife, to wound another, to deliver a bribe, is easy and in our power, but to do these things as a certain state of character is neither easy nor in our power.
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.