suum cuique
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The eighth commandment, my dear, the eighth commandment, and other primitive axioms: suum cuique, and such odd sayings: 'Him as keeps what isn't hisn, soon or late shall go to prison,' with similar apothegms.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
The heart of all persons with a mania is like those boxes with compartments, in which sugarplums are kept in sorts: "suum cuique tribuere" is their motto; they measure to each duty its dose.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac
"Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribuendi," or "Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to every one his right."
From Concerning Justice by Lucilius A. Emery
It was evidently the interest of England, that this superb collection should remain within three days journey of London; but the principle "suum cuique" forbad it.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
In which Friedrich translates the Prussian motto "suum cuique" for the Miller's benefit, and goes on a wild-goose chase after the Frenchman: and the Miller finds he has sat down on a swarm of bees.
From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter
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