the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve.

Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee.

22. Not to be driven this way and that, but always to behave with justice and see things as they are.

He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only who does a certain thing.

Inquire of thyself as soon as thou wakest from sleep, whether it will make any difference to thee, if another does what is just and right. It will make no difference.

Marcus sought by-laws to protect the weak, to make the lot of the slaves less hard, to stand in place of father to the fatherless.

To righteousness, in speaking the truth freely, and without ambiguity; and in doing all things justly and discreetly.

But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just. Then they will not care how devout you have been. But will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of the loves ones.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.