Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.