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.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.