Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice - Cicero

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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC), infrequently known by the anglicized name Tully in the Middle Ages and after, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

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Sed quo beneficio? quod me Brundisi non occideris?

Meanwhile, Milo had been in the Senate on that day until it was dismissed and then came home. He changed out of his formal clothes, waited for a little while his wife got herself ready — you all know how that goes — and set out at the hour when Clodius, if he had been planning on coming back to Rome that day, would have returned.

A: Dolorem existimo maximum malorum omnium.
M: Etiamne malus quam dedecus?
A: Non audeo id dicere equidem, et me pudet tam cito de sententia esse deiectam.
M: Magis esset pudendum, si in sententia permaneres.