The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.