„Mercy is of greater value than justice.“
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Reflections and Maxims (1746), La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
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„An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.“
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Fisher v. Prince (1762), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield7
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