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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same
Extreme justice is extreme injustice
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake
To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness
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