Plato Quotes on Justice

5 quotes

  1. No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.

  2. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  3. Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

  4. The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

  5. Here, first of all men for pure justice famed, And moral virtue, Aristocles lies; And if there e'er has lived one truly wise, This man was wiser still; too great for envy.

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