"Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence……" — Unknown Author

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• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of… — Aristotle
• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
• Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler
• I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. — Richard Branson
• Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar… — John Jay Chapman
• We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,… — C.S. Lewis
• It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either… — Samuel Johnson
• They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu
• When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in… — Sun Tzu
• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be… — Joseph Hall
• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson
• Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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