It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.
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If you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.
Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong – acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
He meant friends owe something good to their friends, never something bad.
Now, can musicians use music to make people unmusical? ‘Impossible.’ ‘Can skilled horsemen use their skill to make people bad horsemen?’ ‘No.’ ‘So can moral people use morality to make people immoral? Or in general can good people use their goodness to make people bad?’
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will.
For [people] are good in one way, but in all kinds of ways bad.
For we are noble in only one way, but bad in all sorts of ways.
