So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.