“Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.”
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part I, p.33 (1881) Tr. Friedlander
“Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.”
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)
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Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
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The Enchiridion (c. 135)
Source: Enchiridion 5 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
“Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.”
Mary Wollstonecraft book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Letter 23
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)
“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Plutarch Moralia, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
Variant translation: Base men live to eat and drink, and good men eat and drink to live.
Plutarch
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Part III, No. 5 - Walton's Book of Lives. Compare: "The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing / Made of a quill from an angel's wing", Henry Constable, Sonnet; "Whose noble praise / Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing", Dorothy Berry, Sonnet.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Andrew Zimbalist (1947) American economist
Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 1, Monte Ward To Marvin Miller, p. 15.
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
Bram Stoker book Dracula
Variant: The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.
Source: Dracula