Humanity

For it is known to all standing round us, as to everyone else, that in this court Leptines is contending with us, but within the conscience of each member of the jury humanity is arrayed against envy, justice against malice, and all that is good against all that is most base.

If you yield to the nobler impulse and cast your votes with us, you will win for yourselves the credit, and for the State the benefit, of a righteous verdict, and if ever occasion arises, you will not lack friends willing to encounter risk in your behalf.

So whoever wishes his humanity to be perfected, and to attain that matter for which the creation of man was intended, so as to complete his essence and to share with the sages in what they preferred and aimed at, let him acquire these two arts, I mean the two parts of wisdom, the theoretical and the practical, so that the realities of things may be obtained for him by the theoretical part and the …

and if it is not annulled altogether, nothing of it remains but a small part, as measured by the comparison, that is, that his humanity be measured against his medicine, so that his happiness is as much as this naming seeks for him.

Humanity forbids us to be proud toward our fellows, forbids us to be grasping.

let us despise losses, injuries, revilings, and pinpricks, and let us bear our brief discomforts with a great spirit.