# Chapter LXVI explained — Short Works

> Chapter companion for Short Works by Epictetus.

## What happens

A brief, axiomatic statement asserting that justice, like straightness, is an absolute and perfect standard.

## Themes in this chapter

### Virtue as the Only Good

The excerpt presents justice as an inherent, perfect quality, analogous to the geometric perfection of straightness, reinforcing the Stoic view of virtue as an absolute good.

## Key lines

> As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is juster than that which is just.

Justice is its own perfect and absolute standard, just as a straight line is the definition of straightness itself.

_Uses a geometric analogy to define justice as an intrinsic, unexcelled virtue._

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