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Magnanimity Quotes by Saadi
- 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…
- The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
More Magnanimity Quotes
- 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… — 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… — William Hazlitt
- To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt… — 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… — Saadi
- Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was… — 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… — 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