Aristotle on Justice

"Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all."

"When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition."

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."

"It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming"

"Law is order, and good law is good order."

"For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for"

"正如有时会发生的那样，畸形的双亲生育畸形的后代，而有时又不是这样；同样的道理，因为雌性似乎就是畸形的雄性，所以雌性产下的后代有时是雌性，有时不是雌性而是雄性。Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male,"

"Demagogues arise in cities where the laws are not sovereign. The people then becomes a monarchy - a single composite monarch made up of many members, with the many paying the sovereign, no as individuals, but collectively. It is not clear what homer means who he says that 'it is not good to have the rule of many masters;; whether he has in mind a situation of this kind, or one where there are many rulers who act as individuals."