That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Friends are proved by adversity.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.