"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
I cannot but be astonished that Socrates, after having so often repeated to his fellow citizens that he did not pretend to any wisdom, but had been appointed by the gods to a mission of benevolence towards them, should have been condemned to death.