Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

Montaigne was lucky, for he was formed as much by love and tenderness as he was by these experiments. A genuine fascination, a desire to know, is the only force powerful enough to drive someone to real discovery. In Lincoln’s case, it would not survive the blows of fate that fell sporadically at first, and then so rapidly that they nearly killed him. And when war finally did come, he saw it for what it was and refused to accept the framing of the radicalized, fratricidal slave interests.