“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Related Quotes “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”– Plato “Our country in general assumes that “the pursuit of happiness” really means “the pursuit of pleasure” and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”— Madeleine L’Engle “Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”– George Bernard Shaw