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"Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice."

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One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

— Pierre Bayle

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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