Remember, you once said, Lije, that people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Remember, you once said, Lije, that people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves." in the context of "Chapter 14, “Power of a Name” (p. 148)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.