Joseph Addison Quotes

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

I am a just man.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

The just man walks in his integrity

All virtue is summed up by just dealing.

Justice, justice shall you pursue.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.

Righteousness is on our side.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.