He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.