mercy, n.All

Mercy is not always about saving. One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand that kills from mercy.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Mercy is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it.

Mercy is virtue which proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Mercy is better than vengeance.

Mercy can only be performed by single individuals and is incapable of being performed by juries (who serve as the proxy of society) since society an entity which though one would like to be merciful, absolutely cannot be since it only recognizes those virtues that are advantageous to it.

Mercy is, a kind of treatment that requires that we sometimes reveal our handicaps, sometimes conceal them.

Mercy requires the possibility of mercilessnesss. While animals can be cruel, only civilized humans can be merciless.