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• A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

  Maxim Gorky

  Stupid, Men, Brain

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• Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

  Aristotle

  Men, Excellence, Causes

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

  John Keegan

  Exercise, Men, People

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• Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

  Socrates

  Men, Evil, Goodness

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• A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Men, World

  Robert Southey (1850). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey”, p.279

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• Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

  Lucullus

  Character, Men, Two

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• Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Men, Order

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.478, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The good man does not grieve
  that other people do not recognize his merits.
  His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

  Confucius

  Men, Grieving, People

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects of Confucius”

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• I will say, just being here, God is good, man.

  Derrick Rose

  Men, Just Being

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• It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

  Sophocles

  Men, Tasks, Helping

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• I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

  Max Lucado

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

  William Butler Yeats

  Believe, Men, Swings

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Men, Opposites

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3134, Delphi Classics

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• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Clever, Ignorance

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press

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• All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

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• An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Mistake, Fall

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Men, Yards

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• A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mean, Men, Doe

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• Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Time, Men

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Neighbors And Friends

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

  Samuel Richardson

  Passion, Men, Warfare

  "The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Bart".

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• A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

  Confucius

  Warrior, Men, Nails

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• Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Heaven, Goodness

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.741

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• I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

  Michael Bergin

  Men, Drug, Taught

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