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• He is with the good, and the good are always fewer than the bad. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
• But I love to take it in more enlarged sense--I take the perfect day to be when the good will be as perfect as they can be; but as that will not be to the end of eternity, those who are trained up in the way they should go, will probably continue to walk in it till the absolutely perfect day comes which will never come, for the good are going to grow better and better as long as eternity lasts. —  Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3
• Egoism, he thinks, is untenable because "if I am right in thinking that my good is the only good, then every one else is mistaken unless he admits that my good, not his, is the only good." —  Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion
• And there is also a kind of good which is diminished by evil, but is not wholly taken away; and this good is the aptitude of a subject to some actuality The diminution, however, of this kind of good is not to be considered by way of subtraction, as diminution in quantity, but rather by way of remission, as diminution in qualities and forms. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• For the good is a preamble to man, inasmuch as man is an individual good; and, again, the good is subsequent to man, inasmuch as we may say of a certain man that he is good, by reason of his perfect virtue. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

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