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- Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Charles Buxton
- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
- Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
- Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Aegeus
- 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
- 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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