Leniency-Compulsion

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. (Goethe)

Clemency is the support of justice. (Russian Proverb)

Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency. (Proverb)

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Plato)

He that spares the bad injures the good. (Thomas Fuller)

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many. (Publilius Syrus)

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. (Heraclitus)