Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can wake into life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems which prosperity or negligence would cause for ever to lie hid. Billings.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, / When 35 thought is speech, and speech is truth. Scott.
Just enou', and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearers' meat. Sc. Pr.
Just hatred of scoundrels, fixed, irreconcilable, inexorable enmity to the enemies of God; this, and not love of them, is the backbone of any religion whatsoever, let alone the Christian. Carlyle.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, / A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. Cowper.
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. Froude.
Just plain duty to know, / Irksome or not, / 40 And truer and better to grow / In doing the duty I know, / That I have sought. Dr. W Smith.
Justa razon engañar el engañador—It is fair to cheat the cheater. Sp. Pr.
Justæ causæ facilis est defensio—The defence of a just cause is easy.
Juste milieu—Right medium. M. of the government of Louis Philippe.