Greatest Good Quotes
63 quotes by 52 authors
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
— Joseph Addison
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what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they…
— Richard Sibbes
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The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind…
— Rikki Ducornet
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The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever…
— Ernest Holmes
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My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel…
— Winston Churchill
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
— Plato
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Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
— Muhammad
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do…
— Socrates
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't…
— Socrates
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God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is…
— John Henry Newman
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The greatest good on this earth is God
— Francis Chan
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Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we…
— Eliza R. Snow
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I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them…
— James Alan Gardner
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The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
— Marshall Field
Who Wrote These Greatest Good Quotes
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