“Commerce and Culture,” p. 284.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Justice is happiness according to virtue.”
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter V, Section 48, p. 310
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Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17
Context: Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.
“Justice is a virtue, but not one that makes people lovable.”
Justice (1993)

“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”
No. 99.
The Guardian (1713)

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. III : The Master, p. 73

"What Is Justice?" (1952), published in What is Justice? (1957)

“That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.”
Plato, 42.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato

As quoted in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1923) by Wilmer Cave France Wright, p. 39; also in The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament (2003) by Craig Alan Evans, Carl A. Elliott, Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner
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