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| Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. |
| by George Eliot |
| There is nothing good or evil save in the will. |
| by Epictetus |
| All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. |
| by Sivananda |
| Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. |
| by Chinese Proverb |
| There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. |
| by Clarence S. Darrow |
| The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. |
| by Diogenes Laertius |
| Keep what you have; the known evil is best. |
| by Titus Maccius Plautus |
| 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. |
| by Cicero |
| If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. |
| by Horace Mann |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. |
| by Joseph Conrad |
| I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. |
| by Euripides |
| The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. |
| by Heinrich Heine |
| Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. |
| by Carl Jung |
| If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply. |
| by Kabbalah |
| To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals. |
| by William Penn |
| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. |
| by Pythagoras |
| No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. |
| by Seneca |
| It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. |
| by Seneca |
| Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. |
| by Johann Kaspar Lavater |
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