It is good to stick to your opinion, but only until some better opinion shall have prevailed with you." In all this the humanity of our Cicero, as opposed equally to the impossible virtue of a Cato or the abominable vice of a Verres, is in advance of his age, and reminds us of what Christ has taught us.
But the best morsel in the whole oration is that in which he snubs the lawyers.

It must be understood that Cicero did not pride himself on being a lawyer.

He was an advocate, and if he wanted law there were those of an inferior grade to whom he could go to get it.

In truth, he did understand the law, being a man of deep research, who inquired into everything.

As legal points had been raised, he thus addresses Sulpicius, who seems to have affected a knowledge of jurisprudence, who had been a candidate for the Consulship, and who was his own intimate friend: "I must put you out of your conceit," he says; "it was your other gifts, not a knowledge of the laws--your moderation, your wisdom, your justice--which, in my opinion, made you worthy of being loved.