Plato Quotes, Evil Quotes, Desire Quotes

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

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there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

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Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

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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.

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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

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Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

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Religion taught us to return good for evil.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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