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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Henry Fielding
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Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
Plutarch
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Plutarch
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There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.
Francois Hollande
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
Samuel Alito
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Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.
Frederic Bastiat
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Reason speaks and feeling bites
Plutarch
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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
Henry Fielding
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
Henry Fielding
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
Plutarch
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...the statement, The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign, is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.
Frederic Bastiat
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I've learned a lot during my years on the 3rd Circuit, particularly, I think, about the way in which a judge should go about the work of judging. I've learned by doing, by sitting on all of these cases. And I think I've also learned from the examples of some really remarkable colleagues.
Samuel Alito
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Plutarch
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Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.
Frederic Bastiat
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
Henry Fielding
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Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.
Henry Fielding
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To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
Plutarch
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Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
Francois Hollande
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No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.
Frederic Bastiat
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An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
Henry Fielding
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