Quotes 221 till 240 of 385.
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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
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No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
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None are all evil,
quickening round his heart,
one softer feeling would not yet depart.The corsair 1, 12, 1 -
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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