Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all

He is wholly without envy, but there is not merit therein: for he wants to conquer a land which no one yet possessed and hardly any one has ever seen.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.