We often say we can't choose our parents — that chance assigns them to us. But we can choose to be born into any intellectual family we want. There are many families of brilliant minds. Pick which one you'd like to join. When you adopt them as your family, you won't just get their name. You'll inherit their wealth of wisdom too. And this wealth isn't meant to be hoarded like a miser's gold. The more people you share it with, the bigger it grows. These great minds will show you the path to immortality. They'll lift you to heights where no one can knock you down.
We are wont to say that we are not able to choose who our parents should be, but that they were assigned to us by chance; yet we may be born just as we please: there are several families of the noblest intellects: choose which you would like to belong to: by your adoption you will not receive their name only, but also their property, which is not intended to be guarded in a mean and miserly spirit: the more persons you divide it among the larger it becomes. These will open to you the path which leads to eternity, and will raise you to a height from whence none shall cast you down.