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“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
“If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
“intentions, good or bad, are not enough.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“How good life is when one does something good and just!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“all good things are wild and free.” Henry David Thoreau, Walking
“Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“You’ve a good heart . . . Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go . . . But mostly, it’s not.” Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“People don't do me much good.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Benevolence is often very peremptory.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Your goodness must have some edge to it, —else it is none.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” George Orwell, 1984
“That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of goodness.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“It is not hard for one to do a bit of good. What is hard is to do good all one's life and never do anything bad” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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