Circumstances Quote by Jane Porter

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

— William Hazlitt

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

— Anonymous

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure…

— Francis Quarles

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

— Alexander Hamilton

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

— Democritus

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who…

— Friedrich Ratzel

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I…

— Fanny Fern

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

— Mencius