Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

No man should be angry with what is true.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.