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Quotes about good
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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“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.”
“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.”
“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”
“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”
“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”
“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.”
“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”