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 If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
 [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]  
 If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
 [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.] 
 A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay 
it: even those judges who know read more 
 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.
 [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est 
de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur 
metier.] 
 So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
 And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
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 So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
 And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
  Lie still without a fee. 
 He who the sword of heaven will bear
 Should be as holy as severe;
  Pattern in himself read more 
 He who the sword of heaven will bear
 Should be as holy as severe;
  Pattern in himself to know,
   Grace to stand, and virtue go;
    More nor less to others paying
     Than by self-offenses weighing.
      Shame to him whose cruel striking
       Kills for faults of his own liking. 
I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
 That no king can corrupt.  
 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
 That no king can corrupt. 
 My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or 
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, read more 
 My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or 
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been 
stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to 
him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, 
dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the 
perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, 
and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my 
three goats. 
 There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of 
few.
 [It., Bisogna che i read more 
 There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of 
few.
 [It., Bisogna che i giudici siano assai, perche pochi sempre 
fanno a modo de' pochi.]