It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. – Zachary Taylor

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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Self Discipline Quotes

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Minds are conquered not by arms but by love and magnanimity.

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“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.”

~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

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There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not just theoretically, but practically.

– Henry David Thoreau

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“Did ever anyone try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them — that it was a vain endeavor?”

– Henry David Thoreau, American writer, philosopher and naturalist (1817-1872)

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