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Proverb
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| "A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil,
that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than
forgive or gain by love and information. Force may subdue, but love gains.
And one that forgives first wins the laurel." | |
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William Penn
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| "Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose
both." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil,
what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight
constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of
oneself." | |
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Patrick McGoohan
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| "CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils
afflicting another." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Don?t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many
real ones to encounter." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Evil and good are God"s right hand and left." | |
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Bailey
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| "Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess,
perversion, or corruption of that which has substance." | |
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Cardinal John Henry Newman
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| "Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats
at our own table." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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| "Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not
a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the
monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous
world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this
world." | |
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Marquis De Sade
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| "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." | |
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Joseph Roux
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| "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil." | |
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Plato
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| "Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a
rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are
set on work, and guided." | |
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John Locke
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| "Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil." | |
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "He is not a lover who does not love forever." | |
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Euripides
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| "He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one
only evil, namely, ignorance." | |
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Diogenes the Cynic
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| "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is
stronger than evil triumphant." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of
evil." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good
remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and
the evil remains." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Imaginary evils are incurable." | |
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Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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| "It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts
the weak." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great
lessons." | |
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Christian Nestell Bovée
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| "Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids
poison." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." | |
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The Bible
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| "May evil spirits be confused on the way to your door." | |
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George Denis Carlin
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| "Men"s evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in
water." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that
we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes." | |
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Louisa May Alcott
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| "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of
expedience." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of
expediency." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it
strikes the eye." | |
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Aristotle
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| "No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. ?Nemo repente fuit
turpissimus" | |
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal
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| "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with
good." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or
evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse; all
good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good." | |
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John Milton
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| "Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you." | |
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Phædrus
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| "The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the
soul to good or to evil." | |
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Pythagoras
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| "There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a
necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to
bewail it senseless." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control
them afterwards." | |
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Charles W. Chestnutt
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| "To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring
danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and
noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them." | |
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Plutarch
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| "We are often able because we think we are able." | |
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J. Hawes
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| "We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example
of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which
is so common, while that which is good is so rare." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle,
then evil men prevail." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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| "When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises
the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There
arises the recognition of evil." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "Whenever I"m caught between two evils, I take the one I"ve never
tried." | |
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Mae West
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| "Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut
to everything." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to
evil; buy it, by compromise with evil." | |
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John Ruskin
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