“What may be good circumstances in one man, cannot be deemed so in another.”
Rex v. Locker (1803), 5 Esp. 106.
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Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough21
Lord Chief Justice of England 1750–1818Related quotes
“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
Godfrey v. Hudson (1788), 2 Esp. 500.
“That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.”
Joseph Smith, Jr. book Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 256 (11 April 1842)
1840s
Context: That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He said, 'Thou shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted— by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Undated letter to Rosina Bulwer Lytton, cited in Andre Maurois, Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age (1927), p. 114.
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“No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Non è mai alcuna cosa sì disperata, che non vi sia qualche via da poterne sperare.
Act I, scene i
The Mandrake (1524)
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Oppression and Liberty (1958), p. 82
