Kitap 1
13.18
not to the part, but to the whole; not to what a man is now, but to what he has been, always or generally; to remember good rather than ill treatment, and benefits received rather than those conferred; to bear injury with patience; to be willing to appeal to the judgement of reason rather than to violence;To be willing that a judicial sentence should be nominal rather than real (Jebb).
13.19
to prefer arbitration to the law court, for the arbitrator keeps equity in view, whereas the dicast looks only to the law, and the reason why arbitrators were appointed was that equity might prevail. Let this manner of defining equity suffice.
14.1
Wrong acts are greater in proportion to the injustice from which they spring. For this reason the most trifling are sometimes the greatest, as in the charge brought by Callistratus1.7.13. Callistratus and Melanopus were rival orators. Nothing is known of this particular charge. against Melanopus that he had fraudulently kept back three consecrated half-obols from the temple-buildersThe magistrates who superintended the building and repairing operations.; whereas, in the case of just actions, it is quite the contrary. The reason is that the greater potentially inheres in the less; for he who has stolen three consecrated half-obols will commit any wrong whatever. Wrong acts are judged greater sometimes in this way, sometimes by the extent of the injury done.
14.2
A wrong act is greater when there is no adequate punishment for it, but all are insufficient; when there is no remedy, because it is difficult if not impossible to repair it;Understanding ἰᾶσθαι. Or to punish adequately, supplying οὗ μὴ ἴση τιμωρία. and when the person injured cannot obtain legal satisfaction, since it is irremediable; for justice and punishment are kinds of remedies.
