All proofs rest on premises.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The actuality of thought is life.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.