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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric -
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Leviathan (1651) XIII -
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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