Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.