The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.