Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.