“All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.”

“Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.”

“Sometimes one must be base in order not to be tricked by a clever man.”

“The ancient maxim makes the sum of a man’s legal duty to his fellow men to be simply this: “To live honestly, to hurt no one, to give to every one his due.””

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”

“Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to every man his due.”
Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi.

“We do not want new orders. What the world wants is an old order of 2,000 years ago – the order of the man of Galilee.”

“And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause:”

“Each man's place in the social scheme of his village is know; the contribution which he must make to the work and ceremonial of the village and the share of the whole which he will receive back again are likewise defined. For failure to receive what is due to him, he is fined even more heavily than for failure to give that which is due from him. Just as a man must accept his privileges as well as discharge his duties, so is he also the guardian of his own status and if, as may happen to a high caste, that status is affronted, he himself must perform a ceremony to restore it.”

“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”