Strict law is often great injustice.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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.