Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Contentment is natural wealth.