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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.
Samuel Alito
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
Henry Fielding
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The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.
Frederic Bastiat
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If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.
Samuel Alito
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding
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Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
Henry Fielding
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. They are tall, said he, and comely, but bear no fruit.
Plutarch
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Henry Fielding
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Plutarch
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It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.
Henry Fielding
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
Plutarch
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
Henry Fielding
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And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.
Henry Fielding
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I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.
Francois Hollande
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Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
Plutarch
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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
Henry Fielding
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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Plutarch
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When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, I would accept it, said Parmenio, were I Alexander. And so truly would I, said Alexander, if I were Parmenio. But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
Plutarch
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
Plutarch
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
Henry Fielding
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It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch
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