Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Good and Evil Quotes
Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Eric Hoffer, Cicero and Seneca lead. Tolstoy, in The First Step (1892), says that to be good and lead a good life means to give others more than one takes from them. Eleanor Farjeon, in two books from the early 1920s, makes a better joke of it: it is no use crying over spilt evils, it is better to mop them up laughing.
The line about fighting monsters and gazing into the abyss is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. The notes give a German text and a modern translation, which is the Nietzsche version. The “pass through this world but once” passage, credited to Stephen Grellet, is disputed, and a passage on living for something, credited to Thomas Chalmers, is flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on good and evil:
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.
When a Sufi becomes perfect and his heart cleansed of evil thought, nothing can send him harm.
Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.