Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Socrates
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
—Oscar Wilde
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
—George Washington
All good things are wild and free.
—Henry David Thoreau
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sovereignty is but another name for the unlimited exercise of wisdom and goodness.
—John Newton
When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.
We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.
—Plato
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
—Seneca
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. – C.S. Lewis
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
—Plato
To love is to will the good of the other.
—Thomas Aquinas
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
—Immanuel Kant
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet’s tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
—Seneca
Do not pursue the taste of good food.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
—Charles Dickens
When I read a good book I wish that life were 3000 years long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates
The Tao doesn’t take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil.
—Laozi
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
—Seneca
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
—Seneca
There is no more visible sign of a person’s success on the path of goodness than when he restrains his anger and refuses to repay an unkind word with an unkind word, or refuses to strike back at a person who’s offended him.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
—Charles Dickens
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
—Thomas Aquinas
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche