“For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.”

— Paul Auster

Paul Auster, Man In The Dark, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 63.
Man In The Dark (2008)

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novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter 1947

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“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”

Henry David Thoreau book Civil Disobedience

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“Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

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“No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.”

Milan Kundera The Joke

Žádné pocínání není samo o sobe dohré ani zlé. Teprve jeho místo v rádu ciní je dobrým ci zlým.
The Joke (1967)

“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“The Nicomachean Ethics is only intended as a guide for politicians, and they are only concerned to know what is good, not what goodness means…and in any case one can know what things are good without knowing the analysis of 'good”

J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher

Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 22.

“Good, to forgive;
Best, to forget!
Living, we fret;
Dying, we live.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Dedication to La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

“For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.”

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