"That sort of thing can never supply us with food."
"How can you tell? There is mental nourishment: a man finds food in thought."
"Let us indulge in no abstractions! The republic is like two and two in mathematics: two and two make four. When I have given to each man his due—"
"Then your duty is to give him what does not revert to him as a right."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean those mutual concessions which each man owes his neighbor, and which go to make up the sum of social life."
"There is nothing beyond the just limits of the law."
"Ah, but there is—everything!"
"I see nothing but justice."
"I look higher."