"The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them."
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"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."
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"All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life."
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"But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do."
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"Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life."
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"While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning."
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"But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work."
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"The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search."
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"Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day."
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"Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying."
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"Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace."
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"I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good."
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"A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture."
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"It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave."
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"If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition."
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"He is not great who is not greatly good."
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"Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking."
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"Affection is the broadest basis of a good life."
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"I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived."
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"Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization."
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