The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.