Docility Is The Observable Half Of Reason.

Self-assurance Is Contemptible And Fatal Unless It Is Self-knowledge.

One's Friends Are That Part Of The Human Race With Which One Can Be Human.

Love Is At Once More Animal Than Friendship And More Divine.

The Best Men In All Ages Keep Classic Traditions Alive

Gnomic Wisdom, However, Is Notoriously Polychrome, And Proverbs Depend For Their Truth Entirely On The Occasion They Are Applied To. Almost Every Wise Saying Has An Opposite One, No Less Wise, To Balance It.