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People are cruel, but people are kind.
R. Tagore
Good deeds should never be put off: any delay is imprudent and often dangerous.
Cervantes
There is only one way to put an end to evil - to do good to evil people.
L. Tolstoy
Doing good to bad people is the same as doing bad to good people.
Zahiredtsin - Muhammad Babur
In the victory of evil is your fall. In your goodness is your salvation.
Jami
For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm.
M. de Montaigne
Only he can passionately love goodness who is able with all his heart to hate evil uncompromisingly.
F. Schiller
Any evil is easy to nip in the bud.
Seneca
Good is doubly good when it is short. When we reward the good, we punish the bad.
B. Gracian y Morales
It is a necessary consequence of the order of things that the wicked one derives double benefit from his own injustice and from the honesty of others.
J.-J. Rousseau
Everyone wants good. Don't give it away.
S.E. Lec
He who does good to another does good to himself.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
When good is powerless, it is evil.
O. Wilde
Dark clouds turn into heavenly flowers when light kisses them.
R. Tagore
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad things, I feel bad. Here is my religion.
A. Lincoln
When, having done evil, a person is afraid that people will find out about it, he can still find a way to good. When, having done good, a person tries to make people know about it, he generates evil.
Hong Zicheng
The villain cannot achieve greatness.
I.V. Goethe
Do good right and left, do not skimp on good words and even better deeds - love in order to be loved.
B. Gracian y Morales
Someone asked: “Is it right to say that evil must be repaid with good?” The teacher said: “Then what is the reward for goodness? Evil must be repaid with justice, and good with good.
Confucius
Not to do evil is a blessing.
Publius
An evil person harms himself before he harms another.
Aurelius Augustine
The highest right is often the highest evil.
Terence
Deception and force are the tools of the evil ones.
A. Dante
The good one finds heaven for himself on earth, while the evil one here anticipates his hell.
G. Heine
Sow evil - so expect a bloody harvest.
J. Racine
Nip evil in the bud! If time is lost and the disease is strengthened, what can the doctor do about it?
Ovid
Take away from our heart the love of goodness - you will take away all the charm of life.
J.-J. Rousseau
Custom is often evil.
P. Beaumarchais
Good and evil cannot be dealt with in the same way.
Mark Tullius Cicero
The invisible evil is the most disturbing.
Publius
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But I say to you: do not resist evil. But whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Gospel of Matthew 5:39.
Of two evils, one is usually chosen which is easier to inflict.
Danil Rudy.
And should we not do evil so that good will come out, as some slander us and say that this is how we teach.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 3, 8.
Did not keep the thought - keep the word.
Slavomir Trotsky.
The good that I want, I do not do, but the evil that I do not want, I do.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 7, 19.
If you can choose between two evils, then this is not bad.
Konstantin Melikhan.
Evil, as a rule, avenges itself, but good is not necessarily rewarded. Evil is much more consistent.
Karol Izhikovsky.
Good exists where it is constantly created.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.
If you get hit on the right cheek, block right hand and hit with your left.
"School of Karate."
An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Evil never sleeps, and besides, it often wakes up.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 12, 21.
Of the two evils, I always chose the one that I had not tried before.
May West.
The greater evil always hides behind the lesser.
Vladislav Grzegorchik.
Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson.
The Ten Commandments are given in order to choose a few of them and follow them.
If there were so little good in the world, as they say, evil would not be so striking in the eyes.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.
All original thoughts and original sins happened before you were born to people you had no way of knowing.
Fran Lebowitz.
If everyone followed the ten commandments, there would simply be nothing to talk about.
Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken.
In our time, the ten commandments have been replaced by rules traffic- and break them just as often.
Ilona Bodden.
The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt.
All in the elections of two evils!
Boris Krutier.
Don't rush to convert sinners before they sin.
Wieslaw Brudzinsky.
People are always bad until they are compelled to do good by necessity.
Niccolo Machiavelli.
Never ascribe to human malignity that which can be explained by stupidity.
"Hanlon's Razor.
Sin is man-made, but it tastes divine.
May West.
Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid.
It is a pity that drinking water is not a sin. And how tasty it would have seemed!
Georg Lichtenberg.
Absurdity is sin without God.
Jean Paul Sartre.
If you do not feel like breaking even one of the ten commandments, then something is wrong with you.
Gilbert Chesterton.
The lesser evil is usually more durable.
Wieslaw Brudzinsky.
When they learned in the Celestial Empire that beauty is beauty, ugliness also appeared. When they learned that good is good, evil also appeared.
Lao Tzu.
Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine.
The amount of good in nature equals the amount of evil.
Jean Baptiste Robinet.
Sins are of different types.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer.
People are not punished for their sins, but are punished by the sins themselves. And this is the heaviest and most certain punishment.
Lev Tolstoy.
Let's learn - maybe after death we will grow the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant.
Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde.
To the pure, everything is pure.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to Titus, 1, 15.
The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin.
You say two evils? I also have an assortment!
Wieslaw Brudzinsky.
Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel.
There is a big difference whether a person does not want to sin or does not know how.
Seneca.
At every step there are inscriptions: Don't give a damn! Do not litter! Keep quiet. Don't drive on the left side? I did not see only the inscription: Do not kill? Or maybe it would work.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
The Ten Commandments are so concise, clear and understandable only because they were written without the help of advisers and experts.
Charles de Gaulle.
Moses: Inventor of the ten most frequently violated laws.
Leonard Louis Levinson.
No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer.
Morality teaches not how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant.
Hell is a place where the ten commandments are prosecuted.
Henry Louis Mencken.
Who does not notice evil is stupid, who does not notice good is unhappy.
Jerzy Pludowski.
We live in such a way that to suddenly see us is to catch us red-handed.
Seneca.
Be the lesser of two evils.
Ambrose Bierce.
In everything that concerns sins, one should carefully follow the fashion.
A modified Lillian Hellman.
It is a sin to indulge in despondency when there are other sins.
Gennady Malkin.
Good must be with fists.
Stanislav Kunyaev.
The boundary between light and shadow is you.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
Dobro must be with his fists - if he does not have more modern weapons.
Valery Seregin.
If we all confessed our sins to each other, we would laugh at how little fiction we have. If we all revealed our virtues, we would laugh at the same thing.
Kahlil Gibran.
What is virtue? In chastity? No, I will answer, because the human race would have died out. In marital cohabitation? No, there is more virtue in temperance. In not killing? No, because every order would be broken and the evildoers would kill the righteous. In killing? No, killing destroys a living creature. Our truth and our good are only partly true and good, and they are stained with evil and falsehood.
Blaise Pascal.
When sin increased, grace began to abound.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 5, 20.
Of two evils choose the less.
Modified Aristotle.
Of the two evils, choose the better.
Caroline Wells.
Give fists to good, so evil will immediately declare itself good.
Vladimir Goloborodko.
The sin committed for our sake cannot be grave.
Leshek Kumor.
If God were a liberal, instead of ten commandments, we would have ten sentences.
Malcolm Bradbury.
You must make good out of evil, because there is nothing else to make of it.
Robert Penn Warren.
We always think of a moral position as vertical, and an immoral position as horizontal.
I always keep my word when dealing with people, and not always when dealing with God. God is able to forgive.
Modified Paul van Doren.
If said A, don't be B.
O. Donskoy.
People could not even invent the eighth deadly sin.
Theophile Gauthier.
Good by decree is not good.
Ivan Turgenev.
Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky.
Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey.
QUOTES ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL
Good alone is immortal
Evil doesn't last long! (Shota Rustaveli)
I saw a lot of evil in my life, but it did not change my attitude towards good. (Ali Apsheroni)
Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger surprise and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me (Immanuel Kant)
Ignorance of good and evil is the most disturbing fact of human life. ( Mark Tullius Cicero)
The source of evil is vanity, and the source of good is mercy... (Francois Rene de Chateaubriand)
What is the sense of life? Serve others and do good. (Aristotle)
With gentle words and kindness, you can lead an elephant by a thread. (M. Saadi)
We love people for the good we have done to them, and we do not love them for the evil we have done to them. (L.N. Tolstoy)
Look at the universe without evil,
And with a look of reason, kindness, love.
Life is the sea; Of good deeds
Build a ship and sail on the waves.
(Rudaki -Abu Abdallah Rudaki)
A thinking atheist who lives according to his conscience does not himself understand how close he is to God. Because he does good without expecting a reward, unlike believing hypocrites. (Hans Christian Andersen)
Evil is not born from good and vice versa. To distinguish them, we have a human eye! (Omar Khayyam)
To live is to make things, not to acquire them. (Aristotle)
The smarter and kinder a person is, the more he notices goodness in people. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield)
Who does not notice evil is stupid, who does not notice good is unhappy.
(Jerzy Pludowski)
In the victory of evil - your fall. In your good is your salvation. (Jami)
I know of no other sign of superiority other than kindness. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Do not offend people - retribution will come.
Happiness does not promise us someone's offense.
(Firdousi -Hakim
Abulqasim Mansur Hassan Ferdowsi Tusi)
Every good deed has its own reward. (A. Dumas)
Do what and how you can: only love good, and what is good - ask your conscience. (N. Karamzin)
The benefit of a good deed is that you used the opportunity to do it. (Seneca Lucius Annaeus)
Try to be even a little kinder and you will see that you will not be able to commit a bad deed. (Confucius - Kong Tzu)
He who does good to another does good to himself; not in the sense of consequences, but by the very act of doing good, since the consciousness of doing good in itself already gives great joy. (Seneca Lucius Annaeus)Of all the sciences that a person should know, the main science is the science of how to live, doing as little evil as possible, as much good as possible. (L.N. Tolstoy)
Do good and evil always
In the power of all people.
But evil is done without difficulty,
Doing good is harder.
(Farrukhi -Abul
Hasan ibn Julukh Farruhi Sistani)
A person's virtue is measured not by extraordinary feats, but by his daily effort. (Blaise Pascal)
Kindness is for the soul what health is for the body: it is invisible when you own it, and it gives success in every business. (L.N. Tolstoy)
Only the one who is reasonable is truly good... (V. G. Belinsky)
Do not blame others for petty transgressions. Do not convict others of malicious intent. Do not remind others of old grievances. If you follow these three rules, you can cultivate virtue in yourself and avoid trouble. (Hong Zicheng).
Benefits rendered to the unworthy, I consider atrocities (Mark Tullius Cicero)
The first sign of the deterioration of public morals is the disappearance of truth, for truthfulness is the basis of all virtue and is the first requirement for the ruler of the state. (Michel Montaigne)
Good deeds bring happiness
He is happy who did not harm people.
(Nasir Khosrov - Abu Muin Nasir ibn Khosrov ibn Faris al-Kabadiyani al-Marvazi)
Our conscience is our best judge. (N.I. Gnedich)
The most powerful suggestion of goodness is an example of a good life. (L.N. Tolstoy)
A good person is not one who knows how to do good, but one who does not know how to do evil. (V.O. Klyuchevsky)
There is no beauty where there is no good and useful. (Socrates)
Do good while you exist... (Denis Diderot)
Everything but kindness is just whim and vanity.
Everything is transient here - but kindness is eternal.
(Masood Sad Salman)
Many have to be respected not because they do good, but because they do not bring evil. (Claude Adrian Helvetius)
In an immoral society, all inventions that increase man's power over nature are not only not good, but an undeniable and obvious evil. (L.N. Tolstoy)
To do bad deeds is low, to do good when it is not associated with danger is a common thing. Good man- one who does great and noble deeds, even if he risks everything in the process (Plutarch)
Science in a depraved person is a fierce weapon to do evil. Enlightenment elevates one virtuous soul. (D.I. Fonvizin)
It's so easy to be kind. You just need to imagine yourself in the place of another person before you start judging him. (Marlene Dietrich)
Goodness, no matter how small,
Much better than big evil.
(Nizami - Nizami Ganjavi Abu Mohammed Ilyas ibn Yusuf)
Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. Love everyone, trust the elect, do no harm to anyone. (William Shakespeare)
For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm. (Michel Montaigne)
Good is the eternal, highest goal of our life. No matter how we understand good, our life is nothing but striving for good. (L.N. Tolstoy)
May you be weak, and you cannot fight with evil,
But you yourself do not harm those who stand before you.
(Attar -Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Ibrahim)
Good morals matter more than good laws. (Tacitus Publius Cornelius)
Secrecy is terrible in evil. In goodness, the desire to be seen is terrible. Therefore, the harm caused by visible evil is superficial, while that caused by hidden evil is deep. When the good is evident, its usefulness is small, but when it is hidden, it is of great use. (Hong Zicheng)
There are only two virtues in the world that can and should be bowed down to ... - these are genius and kindness of the heart. (Victor Hugo)
The good that you do from the heart, you always do to yourself. (L.N. Tolstoy)
People may forgive you for the good you have done for them, but they rarely forget the wrong they have done to you. (Somerset Maugham)
Bad people live in order to eat and drink, virtuous people eat and drink in order to live. (Socrates)
There are two moralities: one is passive, which forbids doing evil, the other is active, which commands to do good. (Pierre Buast)
Only a joyful heart can find pleasure in goodness. (Immanuel Kant)
In the world of people, good and evil do not exist in their pure form. Even the kindest and most honest person can, through a misunderstanding or in a fit of anger, commit some meanness, which he later regrets all his life. Bad people sometimes they do good things too. Unfortunately, most often, only for their own good. (Ali Apsheroni)
Everything that is morally evil is also evil in politics. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The smarter and kinder a person is, the more he notices goodness in people. (L.N. Tolstoy)
It is good to repent, but not to do evil is even better (Gustave Flaubert)
Only he can passionately love goodness who is able with all his heart to hate evil uncompromisingly. (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
The tale that good is different for everyone was invented by very evil people in order to confuse everyone. (Boris Krieger)
One man, along with God, is the majority (Frank Buchman)
To write is to edit life so that one can live in it (Fazil Iskander)
The ultimate task of art, like religion, is the humanization of man (Fazil Iskander)
The goal of humanity is a good person, and there is no other goal and cannot be (Fazil Iskander)
There is no one who, loving money, pleasure and fame, would also love people: only he who loves virtue loves them. (Epictetus)The boundary between light and shadow is you. (Stanislav Jerzy Lec)
Not to do evil is a boon. (Publius)
An evil person harms himself before he harms another. (Aurelius Augustine)
The one who intends to do good should not expect people to remove all the stones from his path; he is obliged to calmly accept his lot even if new ones are heaped upon him. (Albert Schweitzer)
Good is to preserve life, promote life, evil is to destroy life, harm life. (Albert Schweitzer)Good by decree is not good. (I.S. Turgenev)
Kindness is above all blessings. (M. Gorky)
If a person does not change for the better, he inevitably changes for the worse. (Veselin Georgiev)
Self-sacrifice is allowed; one can sacrifice others evil hearts. (K.M. Batyushkov)
Virtue is the possession of a mean between two vices, one of which is in excess and the other in deficiency. (Aristotle)
Life evil people full of worries. (Denis Diderot)
Truly kind person does not see his own mercy. (Ali Apsheroni)
Complain about unpleasant thing is to double the evil; to laugh at her is to destroy him. (Confucius)
Where good ends, evil begins, and where evil ends, good begins. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
When, doing good, you do not think about yourself or others, a handful of grains will bestow mercy for a thousand poods of bread. When, helping others, you boast of your generosity and demand gratitude from people, then a hundred gold pieces will not benefit you even half a copper. (Hong Zicheng)
Who is good only in words, he is doubly unworthy. (Publius Sir)
Take away from our heart the love of goodness - you will take away all the charm of life. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Whoever sows good, good is his fruit,
He who sows evil will reap evil.
(M. Saadi - Abu Muhammad Muslih ad-Din ibn Abd Allah Saadi Shirazi)
He who is kind is free, even if he is a slave; the one who is angry is a slave, even if he is a king. (Augustine Aurelius)
He who does not truly hate evil does not truly love good either. (Romain Rolland)
If you start judging people, you won't have enough time to love them. (Mother Teresa)
Someone asked: Is it right to say that evil must be repaid with good? The teacher said: And then how to pay for good? Evil must be repaid with justice, and good with good. (Confucius - Kung Tzu)
Good is beauty in action. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
No evil person is ever happy. (Juvenal)
To recognize evil means to immediately begin to fight against it. (M.E. Koltsov)
Peoples! Try first to have good morals rather than laws: morals are the very first laws. (Pythagoras)
The most beautiful music of the soul is kindness. (Romain Rolland)
He who does good to another does good to himself. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
He who accepts evil without resistance becomes its accomplice. (Martin Luther King)
To starve to death is a small event, but to lose morality is a big one. (Confucius - Kung Tzu)
The path of evil does not lead to good. (William Shakespeare)To believe in good, one must begin to do it. (L.N. Tolstoy)
Just go astray from the path of good - and before you have time to come to your senses, you will get bogged down in evil. (L.N. Tolstoy)
The greatness of the world is always in accordance with the greatness of the spirit looking at it. The good one finds his paradise here on earth, the evil one already has his hell here. (Heinrich Heine)Kindness is the only garment that never wears out. (Henry David Thoreau)
In order to have a lot of money, one does not need to have a lot of intelligence, but one must not have a conscience. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord)
Since it is impossible to avoid the results of our actions, let's do good deeds. (Shakyamuni Buddha)
The duel of Good and Evil takes place every second in the heart of every person, for the heart is the battlefield where angels and demons fight. For many millennia they fight for every five, and this will continue until one of the opponents destroys the other. (Paulo Coelho)
Here the devil is fighting with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of people. (F.M. Dostoevsky)
Only a little knowledge leads us away from God, a great knowledge brings us back to Him (Isaac Newton)
When you do good, you yourself experience a certain joyful satisfaction and legitimate pride that accompanies a clear conscience.
Often vice itself pushes us to good deeds.
The greatest test is to occupy a place where nothing good can be done in such a way that it is not immediately taken into account and weighed, where the slightest good deed affects so many people at once and where its outward behavior you act primarily on the people, a judge who is not just enough, who is easy to fool and satisfy.
For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm.
When Good is powerless, it is Evil.
When we are happy, we are always kind; but when we are kind, we are not always happy.
Good is he who does good for others; evil - who does evil to others. Now let's combine these simple truths and in the conclusion we get: “A person is kind when, in order to please himself, he must do something pleasant to others; he is evil when he is forced to derive pleasure from causing trouble to others.
Goodness and rationality are two terms that are essentially equivalent: what is rationality from a theoretical point of view, then from a practical point of view it is good; and vice versa: what is good is certainly reasonable.
Good is like superlative benefit, it seems to be a very useful benefit.
Whom everyone is pleased with does not do anything good, because good is impossible without offending evil.
Reasonable only is the one who is kind, and exactly as much as kind.
Now it seems to everyone that he could do a lot of good in the place and office of another, and only he cannot do it in his office. This is the cause of all evil.
If one senseless whim has been the cause of world upheavals and forced to do stupid things smartest people What would happen then if this whim were comprehended and directed to good?
author: Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Measure the good, for how can you know where it will penetrate? The rays of the spring sun, intended only for warming the earth's surface, suddenly penetrate to the place where the sapphires lie!
Good nature is the most common virtue, but kindness is the rarest virtue.
Others believe that they have a good heart, and these are just weak nerves.
How much wisdom is needed to never lose kindness!
author: Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
Only the unfortunate are good.
Good is nothing but that which corresponds to the egoism of all people.
Good is the will to happiness.
Good by decree is not good.
The opportunity to do evil is given a hundred times a day, and to do good once a year.
The question of good and evil remains a chaos that sincere seekers of an answer cannot understand, a mental game for those who only want to argue - the latter are like convicts playing with their chains.
Virtue and vice, moral good and evil in all countries are determined by whether a given phenomenon is beneficial or harmful to society.
Cases of doing evil are presented a hundred times a day, and cases of doing good once a year.
Good deeds should never be put off: any delay is imprudent and often dangerous.
Great people are capable of great kindness.
Real egoists should do only good: doing evil, oneself is too unhappy.
The good and evil we do to others is often reflected in ourselves.
Those without mercy are cold as ice. These will freeze anyone they meet. Such people can never do good or make another person happy.
If the fields before our eyes spread wide, their sight will not be forgotten. If the good that we leave behind spreads far, the memory of it will not fail. Leave three times as much for your friends as for yourself. For yourself, keep at least a grain of the original purity of the heart.
Kindness can often cause harm, so when you want to do good, think carefully.
Don't be ahead of others in receiving awards. Do not be behind others in doing good deeds. When receiving from others, do not take more than what is due to you. In good deeds, do not do less than is available to you.
Doing good to people, do not demand gratitude from them, your desire to do good will cause harm.
Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about the good of famous people in Latin with translation.
Subtexta malis bona sunt.
Good and evil are related to each other.
Malum nullum est sine aliquo bono.
There is no bad without good.
Bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti par erit.
Good is repaid with good, and evil is repaid with evil.
Malo bene facere tantund(em) est periculum quantum bono male facere.
It is just as dangerous for an evil person to do good as it is for a good person to do evil.
Malo si quid bene facias, benefici(um) interit; Bono si quid male facias, aetat(em) expetit.
If you do good to evil, it will be lost; And if you do evil to good, it remains for life.
Recte facti fecisse merges est.
The reward for a good deed is its accomplishment.
Multum sibi adicit virtus lacessita.
Active (active) virtue achieves a lot.
Virtus suo aere censetur.
The value of virtue is in itself.
Quem bono tenere non potueris, contineas malo.
Whom you can't hold back with kindness, hold back by force.
Ames parentem, si aequust: sin aliter, feras.
If the father is kind, love him, if he is angry, endure.
Inter bonos bene.
Between good people - everything is good.
Nihil est there populare, quam bonitas.
Nothing is more appreciated by the people than kindness.
// Aphorisms about good and evil
- Unreasonable enmity is the most stubborn. Jean Francois de Retz
- Immortality can only be achieved by continuous acts of kindness; perfection is achieved through compassion and mercy. The most essential thing is a loving heart. Buddha
- A large number of accomplices does not justify the crime. T. Fuller
- Be careful when you want to beat the devil in a person, so as not to hurt God in him.
- If you put evil at the basis of all affairs, you will cut your root, you will not harvest the fruit. M. Saadi
- The enemy is not the one who offends, but the one who does it intentionally. Democritus
- The most difficult thing is to fight and eradicate the evil that is committed under the guise of good. P. Buast
- All the wonderful feelings in the world weigh less than one good deed. R. Lowell
- Every good deed has its own reward. Alexandr Duma
- The benefit of a good deed is that you used the opportunity to do it. Seneca
- Even politeness is offensive if it is overemphasized. Gracian
- When you do good, be thankful for it. L.N. Tolstoy
- Virtue in a person must have a property precious stone, which invariably retains its natural beauty, no matter what happens to it. Marcus Aurelius
- Kindness is a language that the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear. P. bovy
- The good one finds heaven for himself on earth, the evil one is already here looking forward to his hell. G. Heine
- The soul can consider itself generous if it is more pleasant for it to give than to receive. A. Mere
- The soul that has committed betrayal perceives any surprise as the beginning of retribution. F. Iskander
- If you can teach a person goodness and don't do it, you lose a brother. Chinese wisdom
- If you are consciously unkind to everyone, you will often be unconsciously cruel to many. D. Ruskin
- The life of evil people is full of worries. D. Diderot
- An evil person harms himself before he harms another. A. Augustine
- An angry person is never right, because anger itself is a mistake.
- Evil is not outside, but within us; it resides in our soul. We recover from it with difficulty, because we do not know that we were sick. Seneca
- Evil, like a wave, hits the shore and comes back. G. Senkevich
- A truly good person does not see his own mercy. A. Apsheroni
- How commendable it would be if people exercised their brains as much as they exercise their bodies, and pursued virtue as zealously as they strive for pleasures. Seneca
- What person who has shown heroism, generosity, sincerity, can say that he himself did not benefit from this? Toro
- As soon as we want to demonstrate virtue, it disappears. Kay
- Who harms one, threatens many. Publilius Sir
- The best thing about good deeds is the desire to hide them. B. Pascal
- People value too little the opportunity to bring joy to their neighbor. J. La Bruyère
- A wise man is upset by his impotence to do the good that he desires, but is not upset that people do not know him or judge him falsely. Chinese wisdom
- We overcome all difficulties in order to do evil; but the slightest obstacle turns us away from goodness. P. Buast
- Punishment does not bypass the villain - only sometimes gives him a reprieve. Publius Cyrus
- The people who in family life does not tolerate injustice, will not commit it in public life. I. Zeime
- You cannot do evil to others without doing it to yourself.
- It is not enough to be kind, you must also be tactful. A.F. Amiel
- An injustice committed against one person is a threat to all. C. Montesquieu
- Do not try to remember the good you have done - this leads to narcissism and develops selfishness. V.E. Mikhaltsev
- There is nothing more vulgar than participation elevated to the rank of etiquette. Vadim Zeland
- The wicked one runs when no one is chasing him. Solomon
- Clean things are not done with unclean hands. Ali Apsheroni
- Some crimes open the way for others. Seneca
- Give the world the best that is in you, and the best that is in the world will return to you!
- Truly good and beautiful does not die. Arndt
- Try to be even a little kinder and you will see that you will not be able to commit a bad deed. Confucius
- Visiting and listening to evil people is already the beginning of an evil deed. Confucius
- The loyalty of the rascals is as unreliable as they are. Pliny the Younger
- Traitors are despised even by those they serve. Tacitus
- Betrayals are committed most often not by deliberate intent, but by weakness of character. F. La Rochefoucauld
- Betrayal, maybe someone likes it, but traitors are hated by everyone. Miguel Cervantes
- The criminal can sometimes escape punishment, but not the fear of it. Seneca
- The joy that we bring to another captivates us by the fact that it not only does not fade, like any reflection, but returns to us even brighter. V. Hugo
- Most The best way cheer yourself up is to cheer someone up. Mark Twain
- One's own soul grows and is purified only by the power of that kindness that exudes the heart of the one you meet. K. Antarova
- Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that it is safe to say that one who is cruel to animals cannot be kind. A. Schopenhauer
- The means of combating evil are sometimes worse than the evil itself. Publius Cyrus
- Weird! A person is indignant at the evil that comes from outside, from others - that which he cannot eliminate, and does not fight his own evil, although this is in his power. Marcus Aurelius
- Since it is impossible to avoid the results of our actions, let's do good deeds. Buddha
- Just go astray from the path of good - and before you have time to come to your senses, you will get bogged down in evil. L.N. Tolstoy
- For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm. M. Montaigne
- The one who does good to another does the most good to himself - not in the sense that he will be rewarded for this, but in the fact that the consciousness of the good done already gives great joy. Seneca
- He who constantly talks about good has hardly done much of it.
- To demand gratitude for each of your good deeds is to trade them.
- The one who is generous should be respected, not the one who can be generous. N. Machiavelli
- A person can avoid misfortunes sent down by Heaven, but there is no escape from those misfortunes that he himself brings upon himself. Eastern proverb
- A person can claim joy and happiness only to the extent that he gives them to others. E. Feuchtersleben
- A person increases his happiness to the extent that he delivers it to others. Bentham
- To do good, one must first of all possess it. Aristotle
- To believe in good, one must begin to do it. L.N. Tolstoy
- This is not virtue, but only a deceptive cast and likeness of it, when we are brought to duty by the expectation of a reward. Cicero