Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
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:
The more skillfully the language of goodness is assumed, the greater the depravity.
Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.
My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
Most of the giddy rabble hate the evil deed they come to see.