Magistrate
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"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."
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🇬🇷Plutarch
Philosophy
"As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Cæsar, "Remember," said he, "Cæsar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself."
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🇺🇸Telford Taylor
Education
1908–1998
"To punish the foe — especially the vanquished foe — for conduct in which the enforcing nation has engaged, would be so grossly inequitable as to discredit the laws themselves."
2 quotes
Yang Zengxin
Politics
1864–1928
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Alexander Knox (1757–1831)
Literature
1818–1891
"Peter B. Nockles, ‘Knox, Alexander ’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2005, accessed 1 June 2007"
6 quotes
🇫🇷François Hollande
Politics
b. 1954
"We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data."
4 quotes
Henry Fielding
Law
1786–1863
"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."
51 quotes
🇺🇸Samuel Alito
Politics
b. 1950
"I believe Mr. Alito has the experience and the skills to be the kind of judge the public deserves – one who is impartial, thoughtful, and fair. I urge the Senate to confirm his nomination."
12 quotes
🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat
Economics
1801–1850
"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."
20 quotes
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"Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young."
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"As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Cæsar, "Remember," said he, "Cæsar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself."
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"Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone."
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"Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise."
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"He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves."
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