Basil of Caesarea Quotes

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

A good deed is a good deed.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex. I'll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Kindness is wisdom.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.