Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another

Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only