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Translation:Mishnah/Seder Nezikin/Tractate Avot/Chapter 1/8/Translation

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116003Mishnah, — Seder Nezikin, Tractate Avot: Chapter 1, Mishnah 8: English translationWikisource
Yehudah ben Tabbai and Shimon ben Shatach received from them.
Yehudah ben Tabbai said,
Do not act as an advisor among judges.
When the litigants are before you, see them as criminals.
And when the litigants have taken their leave, see them as innocent, should they have accepted the decision.