What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.