So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

Difficulty shows what men are.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.