We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

No man in his senses will dance.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.