Able Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The chief obstacle is that we are quick to be satisfied with ourselves. If we find someone to call us good men, cautious and…

— Marcus Aurelius

“People are not always what they say there are - or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us…

— Gai Eaton

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may…

— John Ruskin

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

— Cassandra Clare

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine…

— Oprah Winfrey

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

— John Calvin

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure…

— Swami Vivekananda

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our…

— Henry Ward Beecher