Alice-wise

You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'

That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: `because they lessen from day to day.'