"'T is impious in a good man to be sad."
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"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
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"I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous."
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"Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
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"If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete."
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"For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others."
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"For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]"
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"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath."
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"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"
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"All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing."
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"Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style"
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"A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility"
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"Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so."
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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices."
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"He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming."
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"Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy."
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"The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world."
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"A good man will kill you with hardly a word."
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