It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.