Good and bad Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which…

— Marcus Aurelius

“But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure—all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović

“All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.”

— Lama Surya Das

“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or…

— M. Guizot

“There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts…

— Terry Goodkind

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“A man's life is worth much more than any sacrifice, no matter how great. For the greatest, the most just, the noblest cause on…

— Yasmina Khadra

“Thus the good are unfailingly rewarded with their own virtue, and the wholesome consequences of their actions on society at large. And the bad…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and pity may…

— George R.R. Martin

“Selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, self-indulgence, laziness and pride were all anti-life. Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith, on the other…

— Ernest Gordon

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are…

— Samuel Smiles