• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 114 reads

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• In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.3 · 20 votes · 21 reads

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 41 votes · 186 reads

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• It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 39 reads

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• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 44 votes · 178 reads

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• Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 41 votes · 77 reads

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• No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 8 reads

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• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 168 reads

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• Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 120 reads

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• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 56 reads

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• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 10 reads

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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 87 reads

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• Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 32 votes · 105 reads

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• Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 99 reads

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• The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 150 reads

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• The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 117 reads

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• There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 145 reads

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• There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.3 · 20 votes · 108 reads

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• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 82 reads

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

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 99 reads

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• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 89 reads

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