Susskind exercise on quantum mechanics

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On Susskind book, exercise 3.1 say to prove the following:

"If a vector space is $N$-dimensional, an orthonormal basis of $N$ vectors can be constructed from the eigenvectors of a Hermitian operator."

Susskind wrote that the proof is easy.

From the book I understand that with two unequal eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, then the corresponding eigenvectors are orthogonal. Even if the two eigenvalues are equal, the corresponding eigenvectors can be chosen to be orthogonal.

But I do not undesrtand how to prove if the space is N-dimensional, there will be N orthonormal eigenvectors.

Please Help.