Seek laws that are altogether just and expedient and consistent with each other and, moreover, those which cause the fewest possible controversies and bring about the speediest possible settlements for your citizens. For all these qualities should be found in wise legislation. Isocrates. To Nicocles. Book 2. Section 17.
Image: Marble fragment of the sarcophagus depicting Acilia Gordian III and some members of the Roman Senate, 3rd century CE. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Jean-Pol Grandmont. Photographed at the Palazzo Massimo.
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