10 Stoic Quotes on Justice

  • Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.4
  • And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.5
  • If they are wise, why do you fight with them? If they are fools, why do you care about them?

    — Epictetus, Discourses 3.22
  • A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.

    — Seneca, Medea 199
  • It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

    — Epictetus, Fragments 4
  • Not to be driven this way and that, but always to behave with justice and see things as they are.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.22
  • If you gain from a crime, you did it.

    — Seneca, Medea 500
  • To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.

    — Epictetus, Fragments 107
  • Injustice never rules forever.

    — Seneca, Medea 195
  • Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other’s sake: to help—not harm—one another, as they deserve. To transgress its will, then, is to blaspheme against the oldest of the gods.

    — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.1