Athletics have become professionalized.
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.