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“Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.”

People Want Littles Enough Effort Essentials Goodness Simplicity Luxury Bother Toil Squalor

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.”

Men Littles Natural Perfect Deals Inspire Goodness Prejudice Maxims

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.”

Littles Today Moral Christianity Teaching Source Goodness Respect Suspects Frank

Author:Timothy Radcliffe

“My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday”

Littles Stills Bits Wonderful Goodness Little Bit Tongue Teeth Birthday Thieves

Author:John Walter Bratton

“And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.”

World Littles Pleasure Duty Goodness Sincere Doing Good

Author:John Tillotson

“If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?”

Ifs Littles Goodness Rewards Naughty

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.”

Littles Together Bits Known Goodness Little Bit

Author:John de Ruiter

“As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.”

Knows Wells Littles Found Half Events Morality Goodness Universal Everyday Little Things Crowns Let It Go Pennies Ingenuity Great Ones Raindrops Apothecary

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.”

Littles Whole Body Goodness Fingers

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.”

Thinking Heart Littles Persons Fall Water Wise Goodness Benefits Filled Jars Raindrops Wise Person

Author:Gautama Buddha