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| All good is the better for being diffusive. | 1 |
| And learn the luxury of doing good. Goldsmith. | 2 |
| Be good and refrain not to do good. | 3 |
| Be good in your office, you’ll keep the longer on. | 4 |
| Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. Pope. | 5 |
| For he that once is good is ever great. Ben Jonson. | 6 |
| Good and bad make up a city. Portuguese. | 7 |
| Good and quickly seldom meet. | 8 |
| Good at a distance is better than evil at hand. | 9 |
| Good comes to better and better to bad. French. | 10 |
| Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly. Turkish. | 11 |
| Good is good but better carrieth it. | 12 |
| Good never comes too often. Danish. | 13 |
| Good the more communicated more abundant grows. Milton. | 14 |
| Good that comes too late is good as nothing. | 15 |
| Good though long stayed for is good. | 16 |
| Great and good are seldom the same. | 17 |
| Gude fowk are scarce, take care of ane. | 18 |
| He begins to grow bad who believes himself good. Italian. | 19 |
| He cannot be good that knows not why he is good. | 20 |
| He is not good himself who speaks well of everybody alike. | 21 |
| He knows best what good is who has endured evil. | 22 |
| He that does good shall find good, he that does evil shall find evil. Turkish. | 23 |
| He that hath plenty of good shall have more, he that hath but little shall have less. | 24 |
| He that helps the evil hurts the good. Socrates. | 25 |
| He that returns good for evil obtains the victory. | 26 |
| How few know their own good, or knowing it pursue. Juvenal. | 27 |
| If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true. | 28 |
| If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Cicero. | 29 |
| In avoiding that which is evil I have found that which is good. Latin. | 30 |
| It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. Cicero. | 31 |
| It is good if it were but caught. | 32 |
| Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. Cicero. | 33 |
| No man is good unless others are made better by him. Welsh. | 34 |
| None can be good too soon. | 35 |
| Out of a great evil comes a great good. Italian. | 36 |
| So good that he is good for nothing. Italian. | 37 |
| Some good, some bad as sheep come to the fold. | 38 |
| That’s my good that does me good. | 39 |
| The good are joyful in the midst of poverty, but the wicked are sad in great riches. | 40 |
| The good for virtue’s sake abhor to sin. Creech. | 41 |
| The good fear no law; it is his safety and the bad man’s awe. Massinger. | 42 |
| The good or evil we confer on others often recoils on ourselves. Fielding. | 43 |
| The good palliate no bad action. | 44 |
| The good that is done to bad men is as often productive of injury as the milk which is given to a snake is converted into poison. Modern Greek. | 45 |
| The good you do is not lost though you forget it. | 46 |
| There are good and bad everywhere. Italian. | 47 |
| There is none that doeth good, no not one. Bible. | 48 |
| There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil. | 49 |
| There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare. | 50 |
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| They are aye gude that are far awa’. | 51 |
| Though good be good, better is better (or better carries it). | 52 |
| What is good is never too abundant. Don Quixote. | 53 |
| What is good is difficult. Plato. | 54 |
| Where there is no good within, no good comes out. Dutch. | 55 |
| Worldly good is ebb and flood. Dutch. | 56 |
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