No one should be judge in his own case.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Legal theory

Author

Publilius Syrus

Source

Sententiae

Medium

Epigram

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

Latin

Time

43 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Writer

From

Turkey Europe

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Citation

Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

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Language
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Time
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Citation

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Make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics

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Author

Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
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Language
Greek
Time
322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC
Era
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Authentication Score 2
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Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019.

Another quote originally in Latin

Laws are silent in time of war.

Cicero

Pro Milone

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Cicero
Source
Pro Milone
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
Latin
Time
52 BC 50s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [In Defense of Milo]. c. 52 BC, sect. 11.

Current Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [For Milo], translated by D. H. Berry. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 11.

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Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1656 1650s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Pascal, Blaise [published as Louis de Montalte]. "February 25, 1656." Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres Escrites [The Provincial Letters]. c. 1657, letter 4.