Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.