Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
What we do now echoes in eternity.