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Goodness Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
- Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
- When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the…
- The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
- Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn…
- If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person…
- Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a…
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- Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings… — Henry Adams
- Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire
- Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — Saul Bellow
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- For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue
- May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! — Daniel Boone