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Marcus Aurelius:
  • Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

    • Salvador Dali:
  • Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

    • Jack London:
  • Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

    • Maupassant:
  • There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

    • Gauguin:
  • Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

    • Dickens:
  • There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

    • Kostis Palamas:
  • Immortal spirit of antiquity,
    Father of the true, beautiful and good,
    Descend, appear, shed over us thy light
    Upon this ground and under this sky

    • Thomas Paine:
  • The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

    • Hatim:
  • Do good, and cast it upon the waters.

    • Panait Istrati:
  • The goodness of a man is stronger than the cunning of thousand.

    • Apollinaire:
  • Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

    • Bhanu Acharya:
  • It’s a shame to sit idle without doing some good deed.

    • Aeschylus:
  • Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

    • Socrates:
  • There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

    • Diogenes:
  • Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

    • Charles Bukowski:
  • I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

    • Laozi:
  • When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

    • van Gogh,Vincent:
  • It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

    • Cervantes:
  • There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

    • Sophocles:
  • To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

    • Calderon:
  • What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

    • Jose Rizal:
  • One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

    • Vahan Tekeyan:
  • With your memory tonight, I feel so rich, so good, so happy

    • Mykola Lysenko:
  • Bless us, oh Lord, with good fortune
    For ever and evermore.

    • Ray Charles:
  • Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

    • Verdi:
  • Copying the truth is a good thing, but discovering the truth is much better.

    • Democritus:
  • For all men, good and true is the same. Pleasure is different for everybody.

    • Plinius Gaius:
  • It is much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

    • Diderot:
  • Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

    • Mozart:
  • When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

    • Lautreamont:
  • It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

    • Henri Rousseau:
  • “It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. ”

    • Mary Shelley:
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

    • Arthur Clarke:
  • New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

    • Kalidasa:
  • A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.

    • Feuerbach:
  • As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

    • Epicurus:
  • It takes more than just a good looking body. You should have the heart and soul to go with it.

    • Diogenes:
  • As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

    • Buddha:
  • However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

    • Will Durant:
  • To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

    • James Joyce:
  • Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

    • Marie Curie:
  • I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

    • Plotinus:
  • “The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.”

    • Boccaccio:
  • People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

    • Napoleon:
  • Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

    • William Thackeray:
  • Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

    • Edna Milley:
  • My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

    • Leonard Cohen:
  • “Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”

    • Gracian:
  • Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

    • Amos Oz:
  • Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

    • Galeano:
  • History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

    • Hesiod:
  • A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

    • Aristotles:
  • Goods with toils are acquired.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • What is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

    • Brecht:
  • No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

    • Darwin:
  • To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

    • Washington:
  • Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

    • Anne Frank:
  • In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

    • Maria Kallas:
  • Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

    • Flaubert:
  • To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

    • Hawthorne:
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    • Elder the Pliny:
  • It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

    • Percy Shelley:
  • A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

    • Karen Blixen:
  • It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

    • Boris Pasternak:
  • No bad man can be a good poet.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

    • Plato:
  • Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

    • Luther:
  • There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

    • Pittacus:
  • "Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

    • Laozi:
  • Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

    • Thucydides:
  • We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

    • Bataille:
  • The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

    • John Updike:
  • A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

    • Wollstonecraft:
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mary-wollstonecraft-quotes

    • Hesiod:
  • A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

    • Seneca:
  • He that does good to another does good also to himself.

    • Menander:
  • Bad company corrupts good character.

    • Frank Sinatra:
  • I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

    • Will Durant:
  • One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

    • Jack London:
  • . A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

    • Anton Chekhov:
  • There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

    • Strindberg:
  • Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

    • George Eliot:
  • “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”

    • Plutarch:
  • To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

    • Petrarca:
  • To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

    • Talleyrand:
  • Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

    • Calderon:
  • A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

    • Thomas Paine:
  • One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

    • Carl Rogers:
  • The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

    • Schweitzer:
  • Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory

    • Gracian:
  • Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

    • Ezra Pound:
  • Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • Being a good example is the best form of service.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine

    • Fatima Mernissi:
  • Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine

    • Great the Alexander:
  • Today I wasn't a king because I didn't do a good deed.

    • Hippocrates:
  • Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

    • Charles Bukowski:
  • Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

    • Jackson Pollock:
  • Every good painter paints what he is.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

    • Michelangelo:
  • Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

    • Demosthenes:
  • To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

    • Ezra Pound:
  • If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

    • Viktor Frankl:
  • “I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

    • Socrates:
  • By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

    • Baudelaire:
  • Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

    • Luther:
  • Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

    • Confucius:
  • It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

    • Walt Whitman:
  • “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”

    • Plotinus:
  • To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”

    • Balzac:
  • A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

    • Sophocles:
  • Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

    • Hemingway:
  • The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

    • Karl Popper:
  • Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

    • Seneca:
  • When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

    • Voltaire:
  • Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

    • Gandhi:
  • I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

    • Stendhal:
  • A good book is an event in my life.

    • Mark Twain:
  • Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

    • Montaigne:
  • If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

    • Cervantes:
  • Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

    • Aeschylus:
  • Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

    • Pythagoras:
  • There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

    • Hippocrates:
  • Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the Gods, lend yourself a hand.

    • Nietzsche:
  • When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

    • Aeshop:
  • It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

    • Goethe:
  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

    • Horace:
  • As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

    • Karl Marx:
  • Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

    • Nelson Mandela:
  • A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

    • Laozi:
  • When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

    • Sophocles:
  • The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

    • Maya Angelou:
  • If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

    • Rilke:
  • The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust

    • Diderot:
  • Good music is very close to primitive language.

    • Plutarch:
  • The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

    • Gandhi:
  • Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

    • William James:
  • Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

    • Laozi:
  • Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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