Nothing good gets away.
~ John Steinbeck
Hannah Arendt on Evil
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
~ Hannah Arendt
Sonny Rollins on Life
What I need to know is that being a person who understands that giving is better than getting is the proper way to live. Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.
~ Sonny Rollins / NYT, February 21, 2020
Marcus Aurelius on Virtue
“This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
Zeno on the Good
“All the good are friends of one another.”
~ Zeno of Citium
Benjamin Franklin on Kindness
All mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin on Goodness
A good man is seldom uneasy, an ill one never easy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Jordan Peterson on God
“I act as if God exists.”
~ Jordan Peterson
Socrates on Righteousness
“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
~ Socrates
Marcus Aurelius on Being Good
“While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
William Shakespeare on Reputations
“Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
~ William Shakespeare
Kurt Vonnegut on Goodness
“If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
William Shakespeare on Good and Evil
“The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Good and Evil
“but we must do good against evil.”
~ William Shakespeare
Buddha on Good and Evil
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
~ Buddha
Mark Twain on Goodness
“Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.”
~ Mark Twain
Mark Twain on Being Good
“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
~ Mark Twain