No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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 not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.