Sublime

For let me tell you, that the more the

He knew nothing, and knew that he knew nothing: they knew little or nothing, and imagined that they knew all things. Thus he had passed his life as a sort of missionary in detecting the pretended wisdom of mankind;

he ought to have preferred seeming to being.

First ethics, then politics—this is the order of ideas to us; the reverse is the order of history.

the tale of Troy and the legend of Arthur;

more than human virtue is needed to save a man, and that he only praises justice who is incapable of injustice.

And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are:—that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonourable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible

Appearance is master of truth and lord of happiness.

there is a truth higher than experience, of which the mind bears witness to herself,