August 26

Justice is carried out not by the pursuit of justice, but by love.

1

Just as you need to aim further than your target in order to hit it, so too do you need to be selfless to be just, i.e. you need to be unjust to yourself. If you only want to be just, then you will be partial to yourself and unjust to others.

2

Not a single person can be wholly just in everything he does. But what differentiates a just person from an unjust one is his effort to be just, in the same way that a truthful person differs from a deceitful one by his making an effort to always speak the truth.

3

There is something worse than injustice: the hypocrisy of virtue, love and service to God, which is so often seen in the pseudo-Christian world. People, imagining or pretending that they are fulfilling the law of love, free themselves from the demands of justice and take their injustice to the point of self-satisfied villainy. People donate to churches and to the poor, they engage in charitable work, while that which they give away is the price of the tears and blood of their brothers.

4

A judge may be guided by justice by examining only one side of a question; in life, however, a question has many equally just but different solutions, depending on the side from which the question is examined.

5

Only one thing in life is precious: to never get tired being gentle in the face of people’s constant lies and injustice.

— Marcus Aurelius

6

You suffer from injustices—console yourself: the truly unfortunate are not those who have to bear injustices, but those who act unjustly.

You cannot be perfectly just. You either do too little or too much. There is only one way to not sin against justice: always do more.