justice Quotes

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.