“Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.”

― The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (via pandaindisguise)

“The sentence ‘Become what you are’ seems to sum up his[, Pindar,] whole educational message. That is the meaning of all the traditional models which he holds up to mankind: men must see in them their own true selves, raised to a higher plane.”

― Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (Volume I), Werner Jaeger