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The exhibit features a decorative element adorned with floral patterns. Justice, that brightest adornment of virtue by which a good person gains the title of good. — Cicero The clearest evidence that justice is the most important of all the virtues comes from what happens when you remove it. It’s remarkably stark: The presence of injustice instantly renders any act of virtue—courage, discipline, wisdom—any skill, any achievement, worthless . . . or worse. Courage in the pursuit of evil? A brilliant person with no morals? Self-discipline to the point of perfect selfishness? There’s an argument that if everyone acted with justice all the time, we wouldn’t have so much need for courage. While discretion moderates bravery and pleasure provides us relief from excessive self-control, the ancients would point out that there is no virtue to counterbalance justice. It just is. It just is the whole point. Of every virtue. Of every action. Of our very lives. Nothing is right if we’re not doing what is right. It probably says something about our world today, however, that when people hear the word “justice,” their first thought is not of decency or duty but of the legal system. They think atto
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- Author
- Ryan Holiday
- Publisher
- Profile Books Limited
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781788166317
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Spirituality
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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