Quotes for: good

Quotes for: good

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.
Abbé Pierre

Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The best is the enemy of good.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

All that is mine I carry with me.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
Immanuel Kant

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

To do good needs no consideration.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris

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To love is to will the good of the other.
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica

There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

In this world we must be a little too good to be good enough.
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - The Game of Love and Chance

Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.
Plato - Symposium

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau

How wise must one be to be always kind.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.
Plato - Phaedrus

It is a thousand times easier to do good than to do it well.
Charles de Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws

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The shortest way to fame is to become good.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

All good things are wild and free.
Henry David Thoreau

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The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.
Hannah Arendt

Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good.
Simone Weil

Of all the sciences needful for men, the chief one is the knowledge of how to live, doing as little harm as possible; and of all arts, the most important is that which teaches how to avoid evil, and how to produce good with the least violence.
Leo Tolstoy

Good is not something to contemplate; it is something to be done.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues

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