Sublime

I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that others less esteemed were really wiser and better.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me,

But of the many falsehoods told by them, there was one which quite amazed me;—I mean when they said that you should be upon your guard and not allow yourselves to be deceived by the force of my eloquence.