"A multitude of books distracts the mind...." - Quote by Socrates

“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”

“It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.”

“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?”

“Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.”

“There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.”

“What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present”

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”