Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
Protagoras

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Hesiod

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Lee H. Hamilton

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus