Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.