"Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow."
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"Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome."
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"The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this."
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"Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts."
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"If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots."
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"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
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"We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience."
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"He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill."
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"Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within."
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"I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street."
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"Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings."
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"Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information."
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"The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly."
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"Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life"
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"Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it."
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"Rats live on no evil star"
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"Evils draw men together."
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"...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily."
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"Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong."
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"Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty."
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