Artifice Quote by Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

“And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;”

— Aristotle

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”

— Vladimir Lenin

“I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.”

— Plato

“There comes a time in every scoundrel’s life when he catches a glimpse of what he might have been. Only if he catches it…

— Diana Holquist

“I often wondered why men will risk almost certain death in an attempt to save other men. I decided it was because men will…

— Jonathan Hull

“Every good deed is acceptable goodness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“He wondered where the difference was between the good guys and the bad guys if their means were all just born out of perceived…

— Osiris Brackhaus

“For the minister, who was far from considering himself a radical on questions of ethics, not all scoundrels were equal; their degree of social…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“good men had committed the most unspeakable atrocities imaginable in the name of a cause.”

— Ethan Cross

“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

— William Wordsworth