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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

» Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American novelist [,also known by her Chinese name 'Sai Zhenzhu' Nobel Prize in literature in 1938]

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

» Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

» Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) British author and intellectual

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

» René Descartes (1596-1650) French Mathematician

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

» Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) British actor, Writerand director

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

» Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist and essayist

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

» Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist and actor

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to b

» Steve Jobs (1955-2011) American Businessman

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