A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Man is his own worst enemy.
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.