You should remember not to trust too hastily the assertions of the accuser nor hear the defendant in uproar and anger.

You should remember not to trust too hastily the assertions of the accuser nor hear the defendant in uproar and anger. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 20.

Image: The discovery of the body of Catiline by Alcide Segoni, 1871, at the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.