You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.