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Magistrate Inspirational Quotes (481)

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To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you.
Plutarch
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Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Plutarch
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
Henry Fielding
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The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
Frederic Bastiat
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
Plutarch
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Philosophy is the art of living.
Plutarch
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Henry Fielding
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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
Henry Fielding
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Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.
Francois Hollande
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I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.
Samuel Alito
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Plutarch
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The belly has no ears.
Plutarch
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It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.
Samuel Alito
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For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
Plutarch
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Henry Fielding
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Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Plutarch
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, surely, quoth he, thou art all voice and nothing else.
Plutarch
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I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.
Samuel Alito
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I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
Francois Hollande
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