“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.”

“If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.”

“Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.”

“Find fault with thyself rather than with others.”

“My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates”

“Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, ‘here or nowhere,’ couldst thou only see!”