"happiness is a thing which a person wishes only for himself; goodness is a thing which a person wishes for himself and for others. Happiness can be achieved by struggle; goodness, on the contrary, by being humble." ~ Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom

November 18 You cannot measure good by either the feeling of need or sacrifice, but only by the communication with God which is established between the giver and the receiver. Life alone is not good. Goodness exists only in a proper, vir- tuous life. -LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not a virtue, but a kind of deceitful similitude, to ful- fill our duty for the purpose of its reward. -MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO All people become closer, more or less, to one of two opposite limits: one is life only for oneself, and the other is life only for God. I call this life a happy one in which I do one good deed after another, with no intervals between them. -MARCUS AURELIUS We do good only when we do not notice what we do, when we forget ourselves and live only in others.

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