Good Man Quotations | Page 5

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.