Epicurus Quotes About Justice
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.
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All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
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There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.
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Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.
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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
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Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.
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