Since our Sages admonished us to accept the truth whatever the source, I have also searched among the works of the gentile exegetes, and if I found them to have expressed a particular truth, I have exalted it to the Lord and it became holy.
Moses Mendelssohn, in his commentary on Ecclesiastes, quoted in David Sorkin, Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, University of California Press (Berkeley: 1996) p. 42.
