To be rather than to seem.

“Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audi…”

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

“Ability without honor is useless.”

“Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”