Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.