good quotes

“Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”

— Honore de Balzac

“One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”

“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? ”

— Aldous Huxley

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ”

— Aldous Huxley

“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. ”

— Aldous Huxley

“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”

— Aldous Huxley

“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

“The good of the people is the greatest law.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. ”

“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. ”

“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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