Quotes
Watching the white people eat would make my empty stomach churn and I would grow vaguely angry. Why could I not eat when I was hungry? Why did I always have to wait until others were through? I could not understand why some people had enough food and others did not.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.
Thinking deeply, and pitying deep in his soul the injustice they suffer.
May the gods—
And surely there are powers that care for goodness,
Surely somewhere justice counts—may they
And your own consciousness of acting well
Reward you as they should.
If you have no use for humankind and mortal armor,
at least respect the gods. They know right from wrong.
Trojan and Tyrian I shall treat with no distinction.
Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!
To be a saint is the exception, but to be just is the rule. Make mistakes, commit failures, sin if you will, but be just.
The culprit must pay for his wrong, the debtor for his debt.
In causes of life and death, judges ought (as far as the law permitteth) in justice to remember mercy; and to cast a severe eye upon the example, but a merciful eye upon the person.
Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Cursed (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark. The mislayer of a mere-stone is to blame. But it is the unjust judge, that is the capital remover of landmarks, when he defineth amiss, of lands and property. One foul sentence doth more hurt, than many foul examples. For these do but corrupt the stream, the other corrupteth the fountain.
