“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Source: Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics
“To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.”
— Augustus
Of Cato, as quoted in An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies (2008) by Elizabeth A. McCabe
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“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”
Book III, 1276b.34
Politics
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον.
X, 16
Variant: Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The World Movement (1910)
Context: Each people can do justice to itself only if it does justice to others; but each people can do its part in the world movement for all only if it first does its duty within its own household. The good citizen must be a good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large.
“A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.”
George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
"Tomorrow".
In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Variant: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft book A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)