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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.
Frederic Bastiat
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Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, She can choose best, and so took both away with him.
Plutarch
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
Plutarch
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Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
Francois Hollande
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works
Frederic Bastiat
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So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
Plutarch
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
Henry Fielding
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When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.
Samuel Alito
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Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Plutarch
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
Frederic Bastiat
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As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
Plutarch
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Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
Plutarch
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Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness the other is in false philanthropy.
Frederic Bastiat
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
Plutarch
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Plutarch
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Plutarch
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
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A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.
Plutarch
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
Henry Fielding
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
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If goods don't cross borders, armies will.
Frederic Bastiat
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Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
Plutarch
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