Justice is the measure by which a life and a society are weighed. These passages concern fairness, proportion, and the care owed to others and to the common good.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Justice means minding one's own business and not being a busybody.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Equals should be treated equally, and unequals unequally.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
The welfare of the people shall be the highest law.
Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God.
Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Treat humanity always as an end, never merely as a means.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which most members are poor and miserable.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher that we expect our dinner.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.
An unjust law is no law at all.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due.
