Book A
57
Diogenes said that no labour was good, unless the end (purpose) of it was courage and strength (τόνος) of the soul, but not of the body.
58
As a true balance is neither corrected by a true balance nor judged by a false balance, so also a just judge is neither corrected by just judges nor is he judged (condemned) by unjust judges.
59
As that which is straight does not need that which is straight, so neither does the just need that which is just.Rather obscure, says Schweig. Compare Frag. lviii. and lxvi
60
Do not give judgment in one court (of justice) before you have been tried yourself before justice.Compare lviii. Schweig.
61
If you wish to make your judgments just, listen not to (regard not) any of those who are parties (to the suit), nor to those who plead in it, but listen to justice itself.
62
You will fail (stumble) least in your judgments, if you yourself fail (stumble) least in your life.
63
It is better when you judge justly to be blamed un. deservedly by him who has been condemned than when you judge unjustly to be justly blamed by (before) nature.See Schweig.’s note.
64
As the stone which tests the gold is not at all tested itself by the gold, so it is with him who has the faculty of judging.Schweig. suggests that ὁ λόγος has been omitted before the words ὁ τὸ κριτήριον ἔχων. See the fragment of Chilo on the stone which tries gold. Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci, ed. 1, p. 568.
65
It is shameful for the judge to be judged by others.
