Magnanimity Quotes

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because… — Alexander the Great
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and… — William Hazlitt
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for… — Eric Hoffer
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the… — Saadi
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor? — Henry David Thoreau
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of… — Rudolf Steiner
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Millard Fillmore
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look… — Leo Tolstoy
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other… — Mark Twain
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness. — Democritus
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes… — Victor Davis Hanson
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a… — John Cowper Powys

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