للقاضي أربعُ خصال: أن يستمع بأدب، وأن يجيب بحكمة، وأن يتدبّر بروية، وأن يحكم بنزاهة.

“Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”Socrates — Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study (1967)