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- The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
- There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
- There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
- Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 3 scene 1
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