Top 7 Clemency Quotes - Quoted Daily

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Humanity, Forgiving, Clemency

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

World, Clemency, Monarchs

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Sea, Water, Clemency

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Prison, Clemency, Equal

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

Royalty, Proof, Clemency

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Pity, Clemency, Indulgence

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

Judging, May, Clemency

Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.341, Oxford University Press, USA

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