La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 18.
“A good example is more irritating than a bad one.”
John McAfee (1945) American computer programmer and businessman
From a presentation in Munich, Jan 1991, in response to an audience question on why his competitors complained about his business practices.
“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”
James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer
Source: How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Variant: There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
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