“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”
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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
