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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Justice

Every man loves justice at another man’s expense; nobody cares for it at his own.

It is folly to expect justice from the unprincipled.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.

Justice has a waxen nose.German.

Justice is half religion.Turkish.

Justice is never angry.Ben Jonson.

Justice is the rightful sovereign of the world.Pindar.

It is the clerk makes the justice.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.Latin.

No one likes justice brought home to his own door.Italian.

Of all virtues justice is the best;
Valor without it is a common jest.Waller.

Paper and ink and little justice.Spanish.

Though justice has leaden feet it has leaden hands.

Who demands justice must administer justice.German.