With so many decisions to make in the areas of love and relationships, education and professional endeavors, success and personal happiness, it’s no wonder that most of us seek good advice from the fount of collective human wisdom at one time or another. Here in one helpful compendium is the best advice ever recorded: a collection of personal tips, traditional proverbs, and clever observations—some gently inspiring and some profoundly life-changing—from the sages of the literary, political, spiritual, and psychological realms.