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And then he knew that war is no good, because vanquishing a man is as bitter as being vanquished.
— Albert Camus
Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true good.
— Blaise Pascal
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
— Charles Darwin
For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.
— Robert South
A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.
— Seneca.
A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
— Carew Papritz
And in time, and by being a good woman, and a patient woman, she would have won a good and patient man.
— Helen Oyeyemi
A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.
— Jack Donovan
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it
down. — Patrick Ness
down. — Patrick Ness
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
— Bliss Carman
What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?
— G.K. Chesterton
A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
— African Spir
To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.
— Ayn Rand
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
— Matthew Henry
What was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.
— Anne Rice
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
— Robert Browning
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
— Emily VanCamp
Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.
— Lillian Vernon
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
— Jane Austen
Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.
— Abdul Mueed
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
— Albert Camus
One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.
— Iyanla Vanzant
He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character
— Charles C. Mann
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
— Mickey Rourke
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
— James Dean
What is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?
— G.K. Chesterton
(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
— Bill Gates
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
— Confucius
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
— Louis L'Amour
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
— Logan Lerman
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
— Blaise Pascal
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
— Diogenes
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
— Abraham Lincoln
He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in."
"You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said. — Kameron Hurley
"You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said. — Kameron Hurley
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
— Plato
Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.
— Susan May Warren
The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself
— Sophocles
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
— Saint Francis De Sales
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
— Josh Billings
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby ... it inspires him.
— Ina May Gaskin
As for being a good man,' and Glokta curled his lip, 'that ship sailed long ago, and I wasn't even there to wave it off.
— Joe Abercrombie
A 'biomass' man tries to look good on the outside but inside he is afraid of himself
— Sunday Adelaja
I will say, just being here, God is good, man ...
— Derrick Rose