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.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

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.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.