A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.