What are clemency and meekness?
They are two virtues: the first of which moderates the degree of external punishment to be meted out to someone so that it does not exceed the right limits of reason; the second virtue controls the interior movement of the passion which is called anger (CLVII. 1).
Are clemency and severity opposed to each other, and are meekness and retributive justice also opposed?
In no wise, for they are all different in motive, and in some sense they are the same in that they all seek what is in accordance with right reason (CLVII. 2, Obj. 1).
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