Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

The more...we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason, or choose evil in preference to good

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I believe in karma.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.