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Cui bono?

What's the good of it? for whose advantage?

CiceroOratio Pro Sextio Roscio Amerino. XXX. Quoted from Lucius CassiusSecond Philippic. ("Qui bono fueret.”) See Life of Cicero. II. 292. Note.


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That good diffused may more abundant grow.

CowperConversation. L. 441.


Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
 | author = Cowper
 | work = Task. Bk. I. The Sofa. L. 673.


Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.
Crabbe—Tales of the Hall. Bk. III.


Who soweth good seed shall surely reap;
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold!
Julia C. R. Dorr—To the “Bouquet Club.”

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Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Dryden—Juvenal. Satire X.


If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Epictetus—Fragments. Long’s trans.


For all their luxury was doing good.
Samuel Garth—Cleremont. L. 149.


Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.
  A good man, through obscurest aspirations
  Has still an instinct of the one true way.
Goethe—Faust. Prolog im Himmel.


And learn the luxury of doing good.
 | author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveller. L. 22.


Impell’d with steps unceasing to pursue
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view,
That, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies.
 | author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveller. L. 25.


If goodness leade him not, yet wearinesse
May tosse him to my breast.
 | author = Herbert
 | work = The Pulley. St. 4.


 Vir bonus est quis?
Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.
Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
Horace—Epistles. I. 16. 40.


God whose gifts in gracious flood
  Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
  And is content.
Victor Hugo—God whose Gifts in Gracious Flood.


He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.
Douglas Jerrold—Jerrold’s Wit. A Charitable Man.


Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
John. I. 46.


How near to good is what is fair!
Ben Jonson—Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly.


Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot
Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili.
The good, alas! are few: they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the Nile.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 26.


Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
  Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
  One grand, sweet song.
 | author = Charles Kingsley | work = Farewell. To C. E. G.


Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;
  Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever,
  One grand sweet song.
 | author = Charles Kingsley | work = Farewell. Version in ed. of 1889. Also in Life. Ed. by his wife. Vol. I. P. 487, with line: “And so make Life, Death, and that vast For Ever.”

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Dass alle Länder gute Menschen tragen.
  Know this, that every country can produce good men.
Lessing—Nathan der Weise. II. . 32
Segnius homines bona quam mala sentiunt.
  Men have less lively perception of good than of evil.
Livy—Annales. XXX. 21.


The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
 | author = Lowell
 | work = Among my Books. Second Series. Garfield.


Si veris magna paratur
Fama bonis, et si successu nuda remoto
Inspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ullo
Majorum, fortuna fuit.
If honest fame awaits the truly good; if setting aside the ultimate success of excellence alone is to be considered, then was his fortune as proud as any to be found in the records of our ancestry.
Lucan—Pharsalia. IX. 593.


The crest and crowning of all good,
Life’s final star, is Brotherhood.
Edwin Markham—Brotherhood.


None
But such as are good men can give good things,
And that which is not good, is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.
 | author = Milton | work = Comus. L. 702.