“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

“Never judge or discourage anyone who makes continued progress,no matter how show nature does not hurry,yet everything is accomplished”

“So if anyone is to declare how the all was in this way genuinely born, he must also mix in the form of the wandering cause-how it is its nature to sweep things around. In this way, then, we must retreat, and, by taking in turn another, new beginning suited to these very matters, just as in what was before us earlier, so too in what is before us now, we must begin again from the beginning.”

“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

“Character is simply habit long continued.”

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”