“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”