Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
William Shakespeare
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
Euripides
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Aldous Huxley
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
Ernest Renan
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Sappho
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
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.
Oscar Wilde
Be good and you will be lonesome
Mark Twain