Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Practice, Justice, Judging

• A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Practice, Justice, Judging

  "Characters", 1688.

• He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Justice, Perfection

  "Characters: Of Works of the Mind," #67, 1688.

• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clouds, Gambling, Envy

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