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is like throwing water into the sea when it's done to base fellows.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. Miguel de Cervantes

, in a world perfectly balanced between good and evil, will tip the scales for oneself and for the entire world to the side of good.

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. . . . With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. Maimonides

is paid for by abuse and misunderstanding.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

is often done tby a man to give himself the opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is not indicative of one's morality. Even the devil can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. Robert Louis Stevenson

is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority. Honore de Balzac

is a thing we'd be ashamed of if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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