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- Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
- One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
- Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
- Charles Spencer
- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
- Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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