Only that which is to be sought for its own sake is truly moral (honestum).

Nothing is fitting when Minerva is unwilling — that is, when nature opposes and resists.

The knowledge and contemplation of nature is somehow defective and incomplete unless action follows.

The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the conquered cause pleased Cato.

-- Cato the Younger

Deconstruction is justice.

-- Jacques Derrida

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

-- John Rawls

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

-- John Rawls

It is better to acquit a thousand guilty men than to put a single innocent man to death.

-- Moshe ben Maimon

The duty of the individual is to do what he does best.

-- Robert Bosch