Justice & Rights Sayings

15 sayings found from the Medieval era from 10 authors

The square of the unknown is equal to the number.

— Al-Khwarizmi 830
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Man is not free if he must obey a law imposed on him against his will.

— Averroes (Ibn Rushd) c. 1180 CE
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Let us administer justice with fairness and impartiality.

— Charlemagne c. 790
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I have loved justice above all things.

— Charlemagne c. 810
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Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

— Dante Alighieri 1313
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The Sultan of this country has a thousand wives, and he treats them all equally.

— Ibn Battuta c. 1340
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The juggler then took the limbs of the boy and applied them one to another: he then stamped upon them, and it stood up complete and erect. I was astonished, and was seized in consequence by a palpitation at the heart: but they gave me some drink, and…

— Ibn Battuta c. 1345-1346
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Let each moment be a guest, not a prisoner of longing.

— Kabir 15th Century
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If I say, 'He is One,' it is a lie; if I say, 'He is two,' I am guilty of slander. Kabir knows Him as He is, but cannot express Him.

— Kabir 15th Century
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil.

— Maimonides c. 1180 CE
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And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a debt, he is put in prison until he pays it.

— Marco Polo c. 1300
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And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a lawsuit, he goes before the judge, and the judge gives him a piece of paper, and on the paper is written the name of the man who is to be punished. And then the man who is to be punished i…

— Marco Polo c. 1300
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To-day is a king in disguise, and we are his courtiers. To-morrow is a queen, and we are her slaves.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw, And Kings the Throne of Jamshyd high o'erthrew, In whose high Courts the crowing Cock might once Have crow'd, but now the Lizard and the Rue.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

— Rumi 13th Century
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