It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.