"First practice not letting people know who you are - keep your philosophy to yourself for a bit. In just the manner that fruit is produced - the seed buried for a season, hidden, growing gradually so it may come to full maturity. But if the grain sprouts before the stalk is fully developed, it will never ripen . . . that is the kind of plant you are, displaying fruit too soon, and the winter will kill you."
~ Epictetus, Discourses, 4.8.35b-37
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