Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Man, you don’t speak well, if you believe that a man worth anything at all would give countervailing weight to the danger of life or death, or give consideration to anything but this when he acts: whether his action is just or unjust, the action of a good or of an evil man.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

It is deplorable, Agamemnon, that men's words should ever seem to speak more loudly than their deeds. Good deeds alone should make the doer eloquent, and bad deeds dress themselves in rotten arguments, not gloze their foulness with fair colours. There are men who make this practice a fine art. Their cleverness, so-called, cannot last long; they all, without exception, come to a bad end.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

the only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.

Great men may make great mistakes;