Good quotes

“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.” Karl Marx

“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.” Aristotle

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” Aristotle

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” Aristotle

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” Aristotle

“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” Aristotle

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” Aristotle

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.” Aristotle

“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.” Euripides

“Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.” Euripides

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.” Euripides

“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.” Euripides

“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.” Euripides

“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.” Euripides

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” Salvador Dali

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” Salvador Dali

“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.” Salvador Dali

“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.” Salvador Dali

“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” Honore de Balzac

“Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.” Honore de Balzac

“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.” Honore de Balzac

“One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.” Moliere

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.” Moliere

“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.” Moliere

“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” Aldous Huxley

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?” Aldous Huxley

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” Aldous Huxley

“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.” Aldous Huxley

“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” Aldous Huxley

“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.” Aldous Huxley