More Wisdom from Crazy Freddie

The party man. The true party man learns no longer--he only experiences and judges; while Solon, who was never a party man but pursued his goal alongside and above the parties, or against them, is characteristically the father of that plain maxim in which the health and inexhaustibility of Athens is contained: "I grow old and always continue to learn."

--Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims