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“I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
Sophocles
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
Sophocles
“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.”
Sophocles
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
Sophocles
“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
Sophocles
“There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”
Sophocles
“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”
Sophocles
“It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.”
Sophocles
“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”
Victor Hugo
“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
Victor Hugo
“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”
Franz Kafka
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
Ovid
“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”
Ovid
“Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.”
Ovid
“The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.”
Ovid
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”
William Shakespeare
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
William Shakespeare
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
William Shakespeare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”
William Shakespeare
“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.”
William Shakespeare
