Quotes 101 till 120 of 383.
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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.
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Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric -
Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Leviathan (1651) XIII -
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
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Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death; victory is ours through him who loved us.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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