Deeds

Famous quotes containing the word deeds:

“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Good deeds always run into trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.