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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“It's always good to be underestimated.” — Donald Trump

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“Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.” — Lao Tzu

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“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.” — Buddha

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“He that does good to another does good also to himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” — Buddha

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“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha

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“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.” — Confucius

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“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington

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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.” — George Carlin

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“In art the best is good enough.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“When good Americans die they go to Paris.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain

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“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.” — Aristotle

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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

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“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” — Albert Einstein

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