It is a thousand times easier to do good than to do it well.
Good is not something to contemplate; it is something to be done.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
All the good are friends of one another.
Those same things from which we get good can also be for us a source of hurt, or else we can avoid the hurt. For instance, deep water is useful for many purposes, and yet again harmful; for there is danger of being drowned. A technique has therefore been invented: instruction in swimming.
The shortest way to fame is to become good.
All good things are wild and free.
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.
Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good.
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.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
To make her onset worse, malice pretends to be good.
Whatever difference there appears in our fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and evil which renders them equal.
The good is the beautiful.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
