Quotes About Good

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.

Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

No man is capable of causing great evil without thinking he's doing the right thing.

Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.

Bad people live that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink that they may live.

Knowledge is the only virtue," because "Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.

Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura

Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

They's men and mens. Some good. Some bad. Some breathing death. Some breathing life.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

To exert his power in doing good is man?s most glorious task.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Because if you're out there not out of a love for justice, but rather, out of hate for your enemy, in no short time you will become the evil you thought you were fighting. Before you know it, the good guys will be the ones protesting you.

By the karma of good actions, some come to serve the Perfect Guru.

You unite me with Yourself, O True God. Through perfect good karma You are obtained.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

And thus the law is indeed good, because it is prohibition of sin, and death is evil because it is the wages of sin; but as wicked men make an evil use not only of evil, but also of good things, so the righteous make a good use not only of good, but also of evil things. Whence it comes to pass that the wicked make an ill use of the law, though the law is good; and that the good die well, though death is an evil.

There is, accordingly, a good which is alone simple, and therefore alone unchangeable, and this is God. By this Good have all others been created.

That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.

For hence I believed Evil also to be some such kind of substance, and to have its own foul and hideous bulk; whether gross, which they called earth, or thin and subtile (like the body of the air), which they imagine to be some malignant mind, creeping through that earth. And because a piety, such as it was, constrained me to believe that the good God never created any evil nature, I conceived two masses, contrary to one another, both unbounded, but the evil narrower, the good more expansive.

For God would never have created any, I do not say angel, but even man, whose future wickedness He foreknew, unless He had equally known to what uses in behalf of the good He could turn him.