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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."
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"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
Time
"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
God
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
Life
"The remedy is worse than the disease."
Moderation
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
Fortune
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
Death
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
Fortune
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
Wisdom
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