A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

I am the Spirit that denies.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.