"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain...." - Quote by Euripides

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”

“Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.”

“If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.”

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”

“In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.”

“One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”

“The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.”

“When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.”