What men have seen they know. . . .
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
To me no profitable speech sounds ill.