Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.