Be Careful! Never Show Your Superiors That

Our True Friends Are Those Who Are With Us When The Good Things Happen. They Cheer Us On And Are Pleased By Our Triumphs. False Friends Only Appear At Difficult Times, With Their Sad, Supportive Faces, When, In Fact, Our Suffering Is Serving To Console Them For Their Miserable Lives.

Transformations Always Occur During Moments Of Crisis.

If You Are Honest, People May Cheat You. Be Honest Anyway.

When We Are High Up, Everything Looks Very Small. Our Glories And Our Sadnesses Cease To Be Important. We Have Left Whatever We Won Or Lost Down Below. From The Top Of A Mountain You Can See How Large The World Is And How Wide The Horizon.

"this Is Why Alchemy Exists," The Boy Said. "so That Everyone Will Search For His Treasure, Find It, And Then Want To Be Better Than He Was In His Former Life. Lead Will Play Its Role Until The World Has No Further Need For Lead; And Then Lead Will Have To Turn Itself Into Gold. That's What Alchemists Do. They Show That, When We Strive To Become Better Than We Are, Everything Around Us Becomes Better, Too."