“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
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“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”
“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.”
“The good is the beautiful.”
“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.”
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”
“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”