Magnanimity Quotes
55 quotes by 49 authors
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
— Millard Fillmore
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
— Marianne Moore
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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
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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
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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
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Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
— Democritus
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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
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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
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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
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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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