"Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public."

-- Catherine the Great

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.”
“France cannot be France without greatness.”
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
“...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.”
“The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.”
“There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.”
“Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.”
“Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.”

Source : John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.332, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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