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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding
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The solution of the social problem is in liberty.
Frederic Bastiat
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That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
Francois Hollande
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
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God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
Plutarch
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding
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I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
Francois Hollande
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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
Plutarch
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Henry Fielding
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As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause.
Henry Fielding
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
Henry Fielding
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
Plutarch
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
Henry Fielding
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
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He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
Plutarch
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The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.
Frederic Bastiat
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
Henry Fielding
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Plutarch
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When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, Action, and which was the second, he replied, action, and which was the third, he still answered Action.
Plutarch
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O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity sometimes of generosity nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
Henry Fielding
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not...
Samuel Alito
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He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Plutarch
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When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Plutarch
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