If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good There arises the recognition of evil.
Good and evil reward and punishment are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work and guided.
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common while that which is good is so rare.
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate rather than forgive or gain by love and information. Force may subdue but love gains. And one that forgives first wins the laurel.
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly every minute of the day until one dies is the worst part of oneself.
Whenever Im caught between two evils I take the one Ive never tried.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Evil and good are Gods right hand and left.
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Between two evils choose neither; between two goods choose both.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good There arises the recognition of evil.
Good and evil reward and punishment are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work and guided.
Evil has no substance of its own but is only the defect excess perversion or corruption of that which has substance.
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common while that which is good is so rare.
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate rather than forgive or gain by love and information. Force may subdue but love gains. And one that forgives first wins the laurel.
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it by resistance to evil; buy it by compromise with evil.
Life for life Eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot Burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe.
Money is the root of all evil and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
No notice is taken of a little evil but when it increases it strikes the eye.
CALLOUS adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle then evil men prevail.
May evil spirits be confused on the way to your door.
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
He said that there was one only good namely knowledge; and one only evil namely ignorance.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Don?t let us make imaginary evils when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
We are often able because we think we are able.
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. Nemo repente fuit turpissimus
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly every minute of the day until one dies is the worst part of oneself.
So farewell hope and with hope farewell fear Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost. Evil be thou my good.
Submit to the present evil lest a greater one befall you.
False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Evil often triumphs but never conquers.
Mens evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.