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






It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 






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






Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






All the good are friends of one another.
Zeno of Citium






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






All good things are wild and free.
Henry David Thoreau / 






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 / 






True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera






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.
Anatole France






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






To make her onset worse, malice pretends to be good.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 






Whatever difference there appears in our fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and evil which renders them equal.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






The good is the beautiful.
Plato






The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






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.
Plato






The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon






The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt






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






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






Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hannah Arendt






Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato






The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi






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.
Soren Kierkegaard






Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi






Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle






Everything evil is rooted in some good and everything false in some truth.
Thomas Aquinas / 






The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt










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