Quotes About Justice Plato

#1. This then is injustice; and on the other hand when the trader, the auxiliary, and the guardian each do their own business, that is justice, and will make the city just. I agree with you. We

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#2. And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

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#3. Justice is useful when money is useless.

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#4. The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

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#5. T is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity ... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man,

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#6. I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.

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#7. Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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#8. Question - What is justice, stripped of appearances?

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#9. Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business

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#10. The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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#11. Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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#12. Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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#13. Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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#14. justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.

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#15. We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

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#16. Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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#17. So then, perhaps there would be more justice in the bigger and it would be easier to observe closely. If you want, first we'll investigate what justice is like in the cities. Then, we'll also go on to consider it in individuals, considering the likeness of the bigger in the idea24 of the littler?

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#18. Do not expect justice where might is right.

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#19. Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

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#20. Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

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#21. May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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#22. But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I

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#23. Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

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#24. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt. That

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#25. If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

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#26. Hope,' he says, 'cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey; - hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.

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#27. By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

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#28. No man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

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#29. To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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#30. The champion of justice [ ... ] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.

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#31. Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

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#32. Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

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#33. When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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#34. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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