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- Compassion is the basis of all morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
- Domitus Ulpian (100 AD - 228 AD)
- The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
- Sir John Holt
- Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
- Benjamin Cardozo (1870 - 1938)
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
- Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Lord Acton
- The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Their silence is sufficient praise.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
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