Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

The spirit is the true self.