"The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me."
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"Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose"
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"May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways"
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good."
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"Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age."
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"All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them."
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"I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?"
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"Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil."
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"Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil."
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"It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones."
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"We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil."
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"The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate."
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"There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good."
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"I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced"
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"Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior."
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"You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before."
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"This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them."
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"If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it."
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"No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love."
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