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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.
Frederic Bastiat
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Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.
Francois Hollande
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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
Plutarch
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It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
Plutarch
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So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries calumny only succeeded in his absence.
Plutarch
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
Henry Fielding
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Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
Plutarch
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
Henry Fielding
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Demosthenes told Phocion, The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage. And you, said he, if they are once in their senses.
Plutarch
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
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Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
Plutarch
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch
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Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.
Samuel Alito
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
Plutarch
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Words will build no walls.
Plutarch
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Samuel Alito
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Henry Fielding
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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Plutarch
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax
Plutarch
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The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.
Plutarch
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Plutarch
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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
Plutarch
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A healer of others, himself diseased.
Plutarch
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