Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

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?

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

...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.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.