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2. All cruelty springs from weakness.

3. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, fore warned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

4. Association with corrupt people is a pain, the cure of which is separating yourself from them.

5. Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

6. Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment;good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

7. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

8. Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

9. But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own.

10. Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms.

11. Each year, one vicious habit rooted in time ought to make the worst man good.

12. Every evil in the bud is easily crushed:as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

13. Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

14. Evil events from evil causes spring. There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the art.

15. Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good.

16. Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

17. Evil is a form of good, of which the results are not immediately manifest.

18. Evil is simply misplaced force. It can be misplaced in time, like the violence that is acceptable in war is unacceptable in peace. It can be misplaced in space, like a burning coal on the rug rather than the fireplace. Or it can be misplaced in proportion, like an excess of love can make us overly sentimental, or a lack of love can make us cruel and destructive. It is in things such as thesethat evil lies, not in a personal Devil who acts as an Adversary.

19. Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

20. Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road. - Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

21. For every evil under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try and find it, If there is none, never mind it.

22. He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil.

23. He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.

24. However long you boil water,It is impossible to make it burn like fire.

25. I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

26. If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

27. If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

28. If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

29. If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities,thou must keep far from evil companions.

30. If you do what you should not,you must bear what you would not.

31. In whatever manner you fashion a wicked man, It is impossible to make his nature good.

32. It has been said that sin is like the bee,with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

33. It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that in all things good, gain is harder and slower than loss; but in all things bad or evil, getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of them.

34. It is a relative term.Evil can be transmuted into good.

35. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

36. It is almost impossible systematically to constitute anatural moral law.

37. Keep far way from an evil neighbor, do not associate with the wicked, and do not shrug off all thought of calamity. The gates of hell are three: lust, wrath and avarice.

38. Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

39. Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart,it will not come to stay with me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little.

40. Mankind fears an evil man But heaven does not.

41. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

42. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

43. Moral Evil is Falsehood in actions; as Falsehood is Crime in words. Injustice is the essence of Falsehood; and every false word is an injustice. Injustice is the death of the Moral Being, as Falsehood is the poison of the Intelligence.

44. Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable tosit still in a room.

45. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

46. No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

47. No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

48. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests ofevil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.

49. O ye men! Eat of the produce of the earth things that are lawful and pure, and follow not the footsteps of the evil-one; surely, he is an enemy to you clear.

50. One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man atall, that there exist only different conceptions of good.

51. Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

52. Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

53. Prudence collects, arranges, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

54. Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty.

55. Sin first is pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the manis impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.

56. Sin is essentially a departure from God.

57. Sin is hoping for another life and...eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

58. Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night.

59. Sin puts on that which tempteth to destruction.

60. Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee.

61. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is notnecessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

62. The best known evil is the most tolerable.

63. The butcher relenteth not at the bleating of the lamb; neither is the heart of the cruel moved with distress.But the tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dew-drops, falling from roses on the bosom of spring.

64. The cruelty of the weak is more dreadful than that of the strong.

65. The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

66. The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

67. The evil man is like a pot of clay, easily breaking, but reunited with difficulty; whilst a good man is like a jar of gold, hard to break and quickly to be joined again.

68. The first lesson of history, is, that evil is good.

69. The fool who does evil to a man who is good, to a man who is pure and free from sin, the evil returns to him like the dust thrown against the wind.

70. The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

71. The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent.

72. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

73. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

74. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

75. The sun shines even on the wicked. Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

76. The true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

77. The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

78. The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines.

79. The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

80. The world loves a spice of wickedness. it is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.

81. The writer of news never fails to tell how the enemy murdered children and ravished virgins.

82. There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

83. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evilto one who is striking at the root.

84. There are times when it would seem as if God fished with aline, and the Devil with a net.

85. There is this good in real evils, - they deliver us,while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

86. They destroy the Self.Avoid them.

87. They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path.

88. They who fear when they ought not to fear, and fear not when they ought to fear, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path.

89. This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagatingstill it brings forth evil.

90. Through no amount of effort can a naturally wicked man Be turned into an honest one.

91. To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.

92. To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

93. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well reali1zed the black foul monster's presence.

94. Vice is a monster so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

95. Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound andthe sick together.

96. Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience, and celibacyare the canonical vices.

97. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

98. Virtuous ten years - still not enough. Evil one day - too much already.

99. We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than froman example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

100. What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? Cruelty is fed, not weakened by tears.

101. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

102. What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

103. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

104. When better choices are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

105. When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with theidea that we have left them.

106. Who though he has been born a man yet gives himself to evil ways, More foolish is he than the fool who fills with vomit, urine, dung Golden vessels jewel-adorned -harder man's birth to gain than these.

107. Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

108. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

109. You may wash charcoal with zeal, But you will not make it white.