Justinian's Quotes

#1. Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.

Michael Oakeshott

#2. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

Herman Melville

#3. Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.

Raymond Burr

#4. A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.

Jenson Button

#6. The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people.

Tom Franklin

#7. There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,

Justinian I

#8. Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

Mark Hyman

#9. Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Justinian I

#10. Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Karl Kraus

#11. Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Justinian I

#12. In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.

Isaac Newton

#13. Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race ... Mohammed ...

John William Draper

#14. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

Procopius Of Caesarea

#15. The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

Simon Critchley

#16. You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Nikki Sixx

#17. Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.

Justinian I

#18. Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian I

#19. Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

Mary Parker Follett

#20. But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Daniel H. Hill

#21. The safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian I

#22. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Robert Bellarmine

#23. If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

Justinian I

#24. The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

Charles Clover

#25. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

#26. Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

James Altucher

#27. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

Steve Goodier

#28. Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Justinian I