“It is amazing from what a mere fraction of a fact concerning him a man will dare judge the whole of another man”

“A quote from Tolstoy someone reminded of:"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction".”

“I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?”

“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.”

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

“Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.”