"Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil."
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"For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea."
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"Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope."
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"Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?"
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"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
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"Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything."
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"Good to evil seems evil"
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"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
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"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
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"There is but one evil, ignorance."
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"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul."
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"Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils."
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"The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter."
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"A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit."
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"The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center."
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"If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue."
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"Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket."
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"The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it."
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"There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution."
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"Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character."
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