If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy
BoethiusTags: evil goodness nobility degeneration
Happiness lies in our heart. We have to nurture it with blossoms of faith and steady stream of goodness to brush aside the thistles of everyday strife.
Balroop SinghIl n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.
(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)
Tags: goodness guilt actions privacy laws thoughts
Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.
Fulton J. SheenTags: evil god goodness moral-standard
Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.
Ken Dereste DorcelyTags: wisdom life inspiration goodness
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.
Elizabeth KostovaTags: life past passion history goodness dracula
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves...
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