Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Evil is whatever distracts.
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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