good quotes

“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.”

— Aesop

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

“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. ”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

“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

“Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

good quotes

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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. ”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. ”

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”

“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.”

“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. ”

“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”

“That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.”

“We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. ”

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”

“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”