"The path to wisdom is to ask about things you don't know."

"If men give rein to their feelings, obey their nature, they will assuredly come to strife and rapine."

"The gentleman is cautious in what he does not see and fearful of what he does not hear."

"The petty man is sure to gloss over his faults."

"The gentleman does not seek to be praised by others, but to be true to himself."