Good Men Quotes
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When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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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.
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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
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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.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish.
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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.
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
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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.
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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.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
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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.
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When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
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Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?
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...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
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Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
