Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.