"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
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"I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence."
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"A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit."
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"The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate."
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"Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one."
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"If a good man thrive, all thrive with him."
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"Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault."
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"Amongst good men two men suffice."
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"He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way."
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"Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been."
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"A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is."
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"It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them."
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"I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began."
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"I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means."
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"The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks."
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"Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve."
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"Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good."
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"Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!"
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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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"Association with women is the basis of good manners."
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