"The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils."
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"A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good."
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"Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature."
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"Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil."
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"In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue."
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"The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil."
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"Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil]."
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"Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."
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"Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil"
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"Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!"
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"practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways."
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"I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?"
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"'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people."
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"Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?"
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"I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me."
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
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"I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds."
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"Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?"
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"Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul."
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