Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.
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I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
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In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity
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I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.
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Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
