Plato Quotes, Men Quotes, Evil Quotes

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

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I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Evil Quotes , Cost Quotes

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Evil Quotes

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Evil Quotes

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , Evil Quotes