Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the
spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.