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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle
There can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Albert Camus
To live according to nature is the highest good; that is, to lead a life regulated by conscience and conformed to virtue and temperance.
Cicero
It is not enough to do good; one must do it in a good way.
Condorcet
He who fasteth and doth no Good saveth his Bread but loseth his Soul.
Thomas Fuller
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Montaigne
By doing good we become good.
Rousseau
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensivey; he must put himsel in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain, Epigraph. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, 1897
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Good that comes late in good for nothing.
Saying (English)
One may be so good as to be good for nothing.
Saying (Italian)
No one is so good that another may not be just as good.
Saying
Better a doer of good than a do-gooder.
Saying
Never good through evil.
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