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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Good Man

"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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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Good Man

"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."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Good Man

"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."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
Good Man

"I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease."

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Plato Philosopher
Good Man

"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."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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."

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Aristotle Philosopher
Good Man

"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."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"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."

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