Balance of Justice Quotes

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.

Justice always whirls in equal measure.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.