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mercy

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

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. Victor Hugo

 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.

No bench of judges may conscientiously practice mercy: this privilege is reserved to the king as an individual... one rejoices when he makes use of it, as proof that one would like to be merciful, even though as a society one absolutely cannot be. Society thus recognizes only those virtues that are advantageous, or at least not harmful to it (those that can be practiced without its incurring loss, for example justice). (nietzsche 'wander and his shadow' : pdf)

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

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

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

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

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

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. Freud

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

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

To be treated with mercy, some of us must reveal our handicaps, others must conceal theirs.

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