I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For "many," as they say in the mysteries, "are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,"—meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers. The Trials Of Socrates

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. Book V

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. Book VII

“Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.” Uncle Vanya