There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

...avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.