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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Plutarch
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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Plutarch
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Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
Henry Fielding
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding
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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Plutarch
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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
Plutarch
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I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
Francois Hollande
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. Thy words, said he, Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
Plutarch
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A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.
Samuel Alito
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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
Frederic Bastiat
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Plutarch
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
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Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
Plutarch
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He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
Plutarch
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
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Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
Plutarch
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Plutarch
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Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Plutarch
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Henry Fielding
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Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
Frederic Bastiat
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Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
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