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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

Our country is wherever we are well off.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

The forehead is the gate of the mind.