I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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.