"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."

Man, Men, Justice

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

Man, May, Opposition, Persecution

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Skill

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Men, History, Necessity

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Passion

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Man, Men, Injustice, Vote

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man, Nothing

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Man, Woman

Explore more quotes by Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Now

"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

Achievement

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

Achievement

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Courage

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

Life

"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."

Man

"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."

Power

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

Friendship

"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."

Achievement

"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."

Fear