Quotes About Magnanimity

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

That really is the worst revenge you can take, for there's nothing he loathes more than magnanimity. KURT

Don Francisco Penáguilas, padre del joven, era un hombre más que bueno, era inmejorable, superiormente discreto, bondadoso, afable, honrado y magnánimo, no falto de instrucción.

But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself to overlook...', 'Tolerance is all very well up to a point...' -- as if they had tried the ways of magnanimity but found them too exigent.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

What are our intentions, sir?" "Our intentions, Milton? Our intentions are victory, fame, glory, peace, forgiveness of our enemies, reconciliation, magnanimity, prosperity, happiness, and the assured promise of heaven's reward." "Then might I suggest, sir," Cogswell said, trying to sober the ebullient Senator, "that we advance and occupy that stand of trees?

Todos os soldados cativos devem ser tratados com magnanimidade e ainceridade, para que possam vir a servir-nos.

The interesting thing is, the bigger they are, the nicer they are.

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

He, however, lost nothing by his kindness

Pero incluso con sus favoritos, el destino no siempre se muestra magnánimo. Rara vez conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una hazaña única e imperecedera.

Mais ta beauté est si singulière, c'est une bonté ouverte où chacun peut se servir autant que ses mains le lui permettent, elle est si grande, infiniment grande ta bonté, mais pardonne-moi- elle est indolente.

Pero el destino no siempre es magnánimo, ni siquiera con aquellos que ha escogido como a sus preferidos. Raras veces conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una única hazaña inmortal.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Dans une grande âme tout est grand

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

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