On the whole human beings want to be good,
but not too good and not quite all the time.
?George Orwell
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to
acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
?Aristotle
Goodness does not more certainly make
men happy than happiness makes them good.
?Walter Savage Londor
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit
all his thoughts and actions to the laws,
would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
?Michel de Montaigne
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead
of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself
good while life and power are still yours.
?Marcus Aurelius
Mere goodness can achieve little
against the power of nature.
?Georg Hegel
The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
?Edmund Burke
To make one good action succeed another,
is the perfection of goodness.
?Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is
the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and
without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
?Francis Bacon
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
?Tibetan Proverb
There are two types of people in this world,
good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad
seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
?Woody Allen
The measure of your holiness is
proportionate to the goodness of your will.
?Jan Van Ruysbroeck
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he
cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth
it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
?Akhenaton
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
