"The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened."
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"To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck."
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"... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions."
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"There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side"
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"So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil."
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"Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil."
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"We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity."
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"Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil."
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"The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good."
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"The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."
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"It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act."
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"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils"
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"If you want to scare people, you talk about evil."
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"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
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"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil."
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"Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth."
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"Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy."
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"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
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"The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual."
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"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."
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