Quote by Francis Bacon
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than pla

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances. – Azarias

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. – Asoka

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. – Proverb

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. – Ward Becker

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