Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Men Quotes, Evil Quotes

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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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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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

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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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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.

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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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