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John Hall

There is evil enough in man, God knows; but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

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Francesco Guicciardini

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.

Evil | Good | Wisdom |

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Salmon Oliver Levinson

The Evil Will is more powerful when wrapped in the prayer-shawl of piety.

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Abraham Isaac Kook

It is our right to hate an evil man for his actions, but because his deepest self is the image of God, it is our duty to honor him with love.

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Samuel Meyrick, fully Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere. Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint. There is nothing evil in life for the man who has thoroughly grasped the fact that to be deprived of life is not an evil.

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Joseph Opatoshu

In every evil thought there is a spark of divinity, which has sunk to a very low degree, and begs to be elevated.

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Giovani Ruffini

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Evil | Selfishness | Wisdom |

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William Sansom

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

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Eduard Shevardnadze

There must be some supreme, universal design. Each of us comes to life and stays in the world for predestined period. Some leave forever, sometimes without a trace; others stay for a long time, both in life and in memory. We remain longest - we make a difference - when we manage to act not for ourselves but for others. It is possible to create good and evil. The greatest and most important thing a person can do is to understand that where good exists, evil also resides; what’s more, one must strive to stay on the side of righteousness, doing one’s best to promote good in the world. Only you can make this choice. You alone will be held responsible - by other people, by your progeny and by history.

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Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley

One of the principal ingredients in the happiness of childhood is freedom from suspicion - why may it not be combined with a more extensive intercourse with mankind? A disposition to dwell on the bright side of character is like gold to its possessor; but to imagine more evil than meets the eye, betrays affinity for it.

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Sannazaro, fully Jacopo Sannazaro NULL

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Evil | Wisdom | World |

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Jeremy Taylor

War mends but few, and spoils multitudes; it legitimates rapine and authorizes murder; and these crimes must be ministered to by their lesser relatives, by covetousness and anger and pride and revenge, and heats of blood, and wilder liberty, and all the evil that can be supposed to come from or run to such cursed causes of mischief.

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Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life; because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of love, and, therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

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