Wizards First Rule: People Are Stupid

If You Care About Yourself, You Should Care About Learning - Even Learning Simple Things. You Come To Have Pride In Yourself Only By Accomplishing Things, Even From Fixing Some Old Stairs...others Can't Grant You Self-respect, Even Others Who Care About You. You Have To Earn Self-respect Yourself.

There Would Be Nothing I Could Do To You That Would Harm You More Than What You're Already Doing To Harm Yourself...you Are Never Going To Amount To Anything. You Will Always Be The Worthless Muck People Scrape From Their Shoes. You Only Get One Life And You Are Wasting Yours. That's A Terrible Shame. I Doubt You Will Ever Know What It Is To Be Truly Happy, To Achieve Anything Of Worth, To Have Genuine Pride In Yourself. You Bring It All On Yourself, And I Could Do No Worse To You.

When The Whole World Is Crazy, It Doesn't Pay To Be Sane.

People Are Stupid; Given Proper Motivation, Almost Anyone Will Believe Almost Anything. Because People Are Stupid, They Will Believe A Lie Because They Want To Believe It's True, Or Because They Are Afraid It Might Be True. People’s Heads Are Full Of Knowledge, Facts, And Beliefs, And Most Of It Is False, Yet They Think It All True. People Are Stupid; They Can Only Rarely Tell The Difference Between A Lie And The Truth, And Yet They Are Confident They Can, And So Are All The Easier To Fool.

...you'll Find That Being A Friend Is To Like A Person For Who They Are, Even The Parts You Don't Understand. You Don't Have To Understand, Or Do The Same, Or Live Their Lives For Them. If You Truly Care For Them, Then You Want Them To Be Who They Are; That Was Why You Liked Them In The First Place.