Good Man Quotes
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.
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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.
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A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
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If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
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When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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I'm not gay, but I'm still the kind of guy where, even though you have no chance, they still want to hang around me so you can get a good mental image and jerk off to me later.
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My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.
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Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
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Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
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I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
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If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.
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A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
