The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.