Dhammapada

Dhammatthavagga ⧸ Gāthā 257

Asāhasena dhammena samena nayatī pare
Dhammassa gutto medhāvī dhammaṭṭho ti pavuccati

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The Just ⧸ Verse 257

who is learned and leads others, not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by the law and intelligent, he is called just.

English translation by Max Müller, from The Sacred Books of the East (1881).

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