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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
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Do not serve time, let time serve you.
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As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can't be just, be arbitrary
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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.
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One must be strict even in little things.
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An eye for an eye.
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Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
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The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it
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A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.
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The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.
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Gentle to others, to himself severe.
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
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Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.
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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.
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A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
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Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?
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In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.
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Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
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I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;
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Justice delayed is justice denied
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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
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With great leverage comes great justice.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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One is often guilty by being too just.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
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Who can judge the judge?
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Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.
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Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
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Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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before a jury. It takes time: time to
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I was treading the thin line of his patience while falling off the thin line of my sanity
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Strict law is often great injustice.
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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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The fine art of restraint, timely practised, is too beautiful, to go against.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
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He who treads softly goes far.
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We must never bend too much.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Am I not merciful?
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Justice without mercy is tyranny
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" ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."
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But my patience isn't limitless ... unlike my authority.
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That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
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Pardon is granted to necessity.
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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
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The degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a function of how severe the deed itself was.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a collection of knick-knacks and odds and ends. Here a face. There a sunset.
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Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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Patience is decisive indecision.
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The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.
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By moderation one can be generous.
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Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity.
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Judge little but love much.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Justice ... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
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Moderation is the basis of justice.
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A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies
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To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
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In being strict, you were able to control.
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Benevolence is often very peremptory.
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I am not as merciful as my brother.
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Surely you're not going to practice discretion now?
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Patience ... speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation ... enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.
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Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards.
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He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them
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To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.