There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
PlatoThe love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
PlatoIt's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Plato