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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. – Buddha

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. – Buddha

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. – Buddha

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. – Buddha

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. – Robert A. Heinlein

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. – C. S. Lewis

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. – Milton Friedman

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. – William Shakespeare

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. – Lao Tzu

Golf is a good walk spoiled. – Mark Twain

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. – Swami Vivekananda

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin