"All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine."
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"I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair."
"What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention."
"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."
"I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it."
"In every good man a God doth dwell."
"Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard."
"I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease."
"Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works."
"A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad."
"May the good God pardon all good men."
"When good men die their goodness does not perish."
"Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices."
"Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman."
"There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues."
"Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man."
"Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well."
"If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good."
"The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
"The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good."