goodness

fairness

justice

is a rare thing and those who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature... they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is easy, but what is difficult is being just.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo

is, for the most part, nothing but indolence or weakness of will. As such, none deserve praise for being good who have not also the spirit to be bad.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of it can have no notion of thereof.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus

is not something to be praised in one who has it not in his power to be wicked, for goodness is without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is outside the chain of cause and effect on account of the fact that if it has causes, it is not goodness... if it has effects, then it is a reward, and is not goodness either.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness... if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. Leo Tolstoy

By doing good we become good. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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