Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.