"No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death."
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"A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil."
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"Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead."
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"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."
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"While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice."
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"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments."
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"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."
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"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity."
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"Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth."
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"What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil."
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"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."
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"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
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"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
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"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
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"And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it."
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"For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense."
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"It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul."
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"Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?"
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"Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind."
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