XXII. 374 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Ὡς κακοεργίης εὐεργεσίη μέγ' ἀμείνων.
Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43
“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA439&dq=%22when+i+do+good+i+feel+good%22: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In illustration of his religious code I once heard him say that it was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
Posthumous attributions
Charles Manson's first prison interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbW0agGFv88 by 60 Minutes Australia (1981)
“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 18.
Source: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 16
“Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.”
Source: Blacklisted
“Religion is the good you do in the bad times.”
Gil Langton's late mother, cited twice in Ch. 17, pp. 298 and 300
The Ringmaster (1991)
“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
Source: The Complete Fairy Tales
as reported by Vladimir Isachenkov, in "P183 Dead: Street Artist Known As 'Russian Banksy' Dies At 29 Years Old" at The Huffington Post (3 April 2013)
