Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

We are not by nature cruel.

A king who desires his own welfare must always forgive litigants, infants, aged and sick men, who inveigh against him.

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

Pity is treason

The Criminal Code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity that without an easy access to exceptions it in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear it a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.

Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

Mercy surpasses justice.

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

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.