Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.