A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence; no, he who distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads others, not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by the law and intelligent, he is called just.
Na tena hoti dhammaṭṭho, yenatthaṁ sāhasā naye; Yo ca atthaṁ anatthañca, ubho niccheyya paṇḍito. Asāhasena dhammena, samena nayatī pare; Dhammassa gutto medhāvī, “dhammaṭṭho”ti pavuccati.
Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living.
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
The Master said, "Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous."
Learn to do well; Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
'Men frequently apply punishment wrongly: the innocent are put in prison, and the perpetrator of the crime is set at liberty.'
…Say: "Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know? It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition.
Little is known by any one but the spiritual man, / Who has in his heart a touchstone of vital truth. / The others, hovering between two opinions, / Fly towards their nest on a single wing. / Knowledge has two wings, opinion only one wing; / Opinion is weak and lopsided in its flight. …