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.

Deconstruction is justice.

-- Jacques Derrida

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

-- Robert Bosch

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

-- Cato the Younger

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

-- Moshe ben Maimon

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