Benevolent
Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.
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Benevolent Quotations
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Mason Cooley
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer Adler
I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
Tom Baker
Benevolent Translations
benevolent in German is wohlwollend
benevolent in Norwegian is velvillig
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