With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.