There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
—William Shakespeare
It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
—Seneca
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
—Seneca
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
—Seneca
Don’t think that your good attitude toward others is your gift to them. It’s a gift you give to yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find way around the laws.
—Plato
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods!
—Plato
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
—Michelangelo
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.
—John Wesley
A good and wise person can be recognized by the fact that he considers others better and wiser than he is.
—Leo Tolstoy
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
—Plato
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
—Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
—Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
—Plato
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
—Plato
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
—Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
—Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Plato
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent.
Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
—Socrates
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
—Socrates
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates