Famous quotes containing the words improve and/or tone:
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishingthat is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (18721945)
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