Good Men Quotes
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Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
Diogenes
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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
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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
Diogenes
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When good men die their goodness does not perish.
Euripides
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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.
Aristotle
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
Solon
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Simon Wiesenthal
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Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
Gautama Buddha
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
Socrates
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
Eugene Ionesco