fairness Quotes

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?