Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
If we mean to have heroes statesmen and philosophers we should have learned...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.