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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so
much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion read more
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so
much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an
evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable read more
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an
evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil
that they set out to destroy.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be read more
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. read more
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
