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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
The best [man] is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
The good befriend themselves.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Temenidae
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen
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