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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Health is worth more than learning.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!