Absolute justice does not exist. There are only mutual agreements among men, made at various times and places, not to inflict nor allow harm.
300BCE
Substance, in the truest and primary and most definite sense of the word, is that which is neither predicable of a subject nor present in a subject; for instance, the individual man or horse. But in a secondary sense...
here is, however, a difference in the Epic as compared with Tragedy, (1) in its length, and (2) in its metre. (1) As to its length, the limit already suggested will suffice: it must be possible for the beginning...
Panchatantram-विष्णुशर्मा-300 BCE पञ्चतन्त्रम् कथा-मुखम् मनवे वाचस्पतये शुक्राय पराशराय ससुताय ।चाणक्याय च विदुषे नमोऽस्तु नय-शास्त्र-कर्तृभ्यः ॥ ०.१॥ सकलार्थ-शास्त्र-सारं जगति समालोक्य विष्णुशर्मेदम् ।तन्त्रैः पञ्चभिरेतच्चकार सुमनोहरं शास्त्रम् ॥ ०.२॥ तद्यथानुश्रूयते । अस्ति दक्षिणात्ये जनपदे महिलारोप्यं नाम नगरम् । तत्र सकलार्थि-सार्थ-कल्प-द्रुमः प्रवर-नृप-मुकुट-मणिमजरीचयचर्चितचरण-युगलः सकल-कल्प-पारङ्गतोऽमरशक्तिर्नाम...
ननु सर्वेषां रोगाणामामनिवृत्तिरेव तत्र भेषजमिति वक्तव्ये सति ज्वरादावामनिवृत्त्यकरणं दोषहेतुकं भवति । आमनिवृत्तिरपि लङ्घनादेव भाव्येति लङ्घनकरणमप्यावश्यकमिति ब्रह्मणा प्रतिपादितमित्याह
MEDICINE is of all the arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts....
The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable...
κατέβην χθὲς εἰς Πειραιᾶ μετὰ Γλαύκωνος τοῦ Ἀρίστωνος προσευξόμενός τε τῇ θεῷ καὶ ἅμα τὴν ἑορτὴν βουλόμενος θεάσασθαι τίνα τρόπον ποιήσουσιν ἅτε νῦν πρῶτον ἄγοντες. καλὴ μὲν οὖν μοι καὶ ἡ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων πομπὴ ἔδοξεν εἶναι, οὐ μέντοι ἧττον...
ὅτι μὲν ὑμεῖς, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, πεπόνθατε ὑπὸ τῶν ἐμῶν κατηγόρων, οὐκ οἶδα: ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν ὀλίγου ἐμαυτοῦ ἐπελαθόμην, οὕτω πιθανῶς ἔλεγον. καίτοι ἀληθές γε ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν οὐδὲν εἰρήκασιν. μάλιστα δὲ αὐτῶν ἓν ἐθαύμασα...
