And he who punishes rightly, punishes justly? And therefore he acts justly? Justly. Then he who is punished and suffers retribution, suffers justly? That is evident. And that which is just has been admitted to be honourable? Certainly. Then the punisher does what is honourable, and the punished suffers what is honourable?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
Were you not saying just now that he is wretched? Yes, my friend, if he killed another unjustly, in which case he is also to be pitied; and he is not to be envied if he killed him justly. At any rate you will allow that he who is unjustly put to death is wretched, and to be pitied? Not so much, Polus, as he who kills him, and not so much as he who is justly killed. How can that be, Socrates? That may very well be, inasmuch as doing injustice is the greatest of evils. But is it the greatest? Is not suffering injustice a greater evil?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
"I know it, my own Nina; I know it," said Rienzi, rising, and pacing the chamber with large and rapid strides. "Now listen to me. Thou knowest that to govern in safety, it is my policy as my pride to govern justly. To govern justly is an awful thing, when mighty barons are the culprits. Nina, for an open and audacious robbery, our court has sentenced Martin of the Orsini, the Lord of Porto, to death. His corpse swings now on the Staircase of the Lion."英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
In the works of Frank Hals the portrait painter may observe the composition of a face, the features well put together as the painters express it, from whence proceeds that strong marked character of individual nature which is so remarkable in his portraits, and is not to be found in an equal degree in any other painter. If he had joined to this most difficult part of the art a patience in finishing what he had so correctly planned, he might justly have claimed the place which Vandyke, all things considered, so justly holds as the first of portrait painters.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
To Bassano we may add Paul Veronese and Tintoret, for their entire inattention to what is justly esteemed the most essential part of our art, the expression of the passions. Notwithstanding these glaring deficiencies, we justly esteem their works; but it must be remembered that they do not please from those defects, but from their great excellences of another kind, and in spite of such transgressions. These excellences, too, as far as they go, are founded in the truth of general nature. They tell the truth, though not the whole truth.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
At first, truly, to all them that, professing learning, inveigh against poetry, may justly be objected, that they go very near to ungratefulness to seek to deface that which, in the noblest nations and languages that are known, hath been the first light-giver to ignorance, and first nurse, whose milk by little and little enabled them to feed afterwards of tougher knowledges. And will you play the hedgehog, that being received into the den, drove out his host? {3} or rather the vipers, that with their birth kill their parents?英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
Chinese philosopher Confucius similarly reasoned that by simply acting justly, Chinese philosopher Confucius similarly reasoned that by simply acting justly,演讲 · 《The original ring of power ~ Alex Gendler》