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“And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.”

Mind Kind Heaven Justice Kindness Virtue Bears Ashes

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.”

Justice Kindness Kings Authority Rulers

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.”

People Evil Justice Kindness Intention Good Intentions Making People Happy

Author:Gen Urobuchi

“All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness”

Bigs Justice Kindness Virtue Greatness Justice Truth

Author:Stephen Fry

“You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!”

Ifs World Way Giving Would Be Justice Simple Kindness Acts Of Kindness Simple Acts Of Kindness

Book:Tales from the Secret Annexe

Source: Tales from the Secret Annexe

“It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.”

“There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.”

Men Evil Justice Kindness

Author:Confucius

“As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime.”

School Spirit Justice Kindness Crime Creatures Roots Cruelty Humane

Author:Miriam A. Ferguson

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”

“We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.”

Wells Action Wealth Justice Kindness Study Particular Well Being Concrete Distinctive

Author:Benjamin Jowett