If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

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

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

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.