Quotes About Goodness

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.