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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

There is not a moment without some duty.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.