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  • In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

    Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation
  • I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.

    War   Law   Government  
    "Farewell address". May 9, 1865.
  • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com
  • How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  • Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

    Heart   Generosity   Mind  
    John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.105
  • For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

    Wise   Opposites   Brave  
    Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
  • It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

    Friendship   Men   Two  
    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.256, Simon and Schuster
  • Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.

    Dae Jung Kim (2004). “The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004”
  • I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

    People   Kind   Feels  
    "The Funniest Movie Of The Summer". Interview with BuzzFeed News, www.buzzfeed.com.
  • I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

    People   Speak   Enough  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin
  • In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

    Truth   Heroic   Embrace  
  • Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

    Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.108, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!.

    People   Giving   Effort  
  • There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

    Order   Heaven   Unions  
    First Inaugural Address on April 30, 1789. "The Writings of George Washington", edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Volume 30, pp. 294-295,
  • We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

  • It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

    Justice   People   Giving  
    George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.38, New York : J. Wiley
  • If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

    Gentleman   Way   Ability  
    Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.174, Stanford University Press
  • Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

    Humble   Sacrifice   Self  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus. “I’m Gabriel.” Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me.

    Hands   Gideon   Looks  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.262, Simon and Schuster
  • The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled.

  • There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

  • There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870
  • Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

    Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
  • Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

    Men   Justice   Goal  
  • Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

  • The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

  • It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

    God   Wise   Humble  
  • In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

    Average   People   Taoism  
  • When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

    Rome   Purple   Waste  
    Washington Irving (1983). “History, Tales, and Sketches”, p.1011, Library of America
  • In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more!

    Pope Francis during meeting with Students of Jesuit Schools, zenit.org. June 7, 2013.
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