Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
goodquotes
Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform – that God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
author / Gods / good / principles / rules
Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely?
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
No more will there be any difference between ‘the ideal good’ and ‘good’ in so far as both are good.
Good cannot be a single and universal general notion; if it were, it would not be predictable in all the categories, but only in one.
For [people] are good in one way, but in all kinds of ways bad.
Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at.