If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.

Arriving there is what you are destined for

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.