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"In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government."
"Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits."
"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness."
"If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s."
"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune."
"The society of women is the element of good manners."
"As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man."
"A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it."
"The extraordinary business does not require good management."
"Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)"
"It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one."
"Most important is be a good man."
"To a good man nothing that happens is evil."
"Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.""
"Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler."
"We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women."
"Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."
"The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him."
"It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners."
"Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will."
