Quote of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - In this world we must be...

Biography - Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux:

Born: 1688 - Died: 1763
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

In this world we must be a little too good to be good enough.

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - The Game of Love and Chance

Translation

(French, German)

Va, dans ce monde, il faut être un peu trop bon pour l'être assez.

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard

In dieser Welt muss man ein wenig zu gut sein, um gut genug zu sein.

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - Das Spiel von Liebe und Zufall

Quotes for: good

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.

Abbé Pierre /

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

To do good needs no consideration.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris /

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Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

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