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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Plutarch
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I am whatever was, or is, or will be and my veil no mortal ever took up.
Plutarch
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Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?
Plutarch
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I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court. It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.
Samuel Alito
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Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Plutarch
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There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are just because the law makes them so.
Frederic Bastiat
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He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good
Plutarch
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That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Plutarch
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
Frederic Bastiat
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Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Plutarch
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Henry Fielding
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
Plutarch
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Plutarch
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Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
Plutarch
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
Plutarch
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The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
Frederic Bastiat
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense of punishing injustice?
Frederic Bastiat
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the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
Henry Fielding
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
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It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
Frederic Bastiat
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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Plutarch
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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Henry Fielding
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, I'll lay my life, said he, somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
Plutarch
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