β For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. Cicero
β The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honor. Cicero
β It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events. Cicero
β There exists a law, inborn of our hearts by natural intuition, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. Cicero
β “There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.” Cicero