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.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Love knows nothing of order.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.