Difficulty Shows What Men Are. Therefore When

The Foolish And The Uneducated Have Little Use For Freedom. Only The Educated Are Free.

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.

Books Are The Training Weights Of The Mind.

Keep Silence For The Most Part, And Speak Only When You Must, And Then Briefly.

In Every Affair Consider What Precedes And What Follows, And Then Undertake It