Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Judging, Gentleman, Desire

• He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Judging, Criticism, Wish

• Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Voice, Judging

• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Umpires, Judging

• Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, People, Judging

• Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Numbers, Judging, Quality

• When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Judging

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