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A liar should have a good memory.
[Quintilian]
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
[Cicero]
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
[Aristotle]
Law is order, and good law is good order.
[Aristotle]
Necessity knows no law except to prevail.
[Publilius Syrus]
The people should fight for their law as for a wall.
[Heraclitus]
The people's good is the highest law.
[Cicero]
One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.
[Junius]
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you have heard the other side.
[Euripides]
No one should be a judge in his own case.
{Publilius Syrus}
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Cicero}
Let justice be done though heaven should fall.
[Lucius Calpurnius]
The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others; knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.
[Plato]
The good have no need of an advocate.
[Phocion]
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
[Publilius Syrus]
Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust the man from his father's property, do not degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongly; do not kill, for it will not profit you.
[King of Heracleopolis, c.2000BC]
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
[Polybius]
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
[Quintilian]
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
[Hippocrates]
The lawyer has learned how to flatter his master in word and indulge him in deed; but his soul is small and unrighteous . . . from the first he has practised deception and retaliation, and has become stunted and warped. And so he has passed out of youth into manhood, having no soundness in him. . . .
[Plato]