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Lxxxiii: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest. He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weigh. ing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.— CLAUDIANUS — De Consulatu Malii

Theodori Panegyris. CCXXVII. Observantior æqui Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parere sibi. The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.— CLAUDIANUS — De Quarto Consulatu

Honorii Augusti Panegyris. CCXCVII. Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede pœna claudo. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.— HORACE — Carmina. III. 2. 31.

Ad quæstionem juris respondeant judices ad quæstionem facti respondeant juratores. Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. Law Maxim. Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa. No man should be judge in his own case. Law Maxim. Hominem improbum non accusari tutius est quam absolvi. It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.— LIVY — Annales. XXXIV. 4.